Alternative splicing and nonsense-mediated decay of circadian clock genes under environmental stress conditions in Arabidopsis

BMC Plant Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Kwon, Young Ju ^a   Park, Mi Jeong ^a   Kim, Sang Gyu ^b   Baldwin, Ian T ^b   Park, Chung Mo ^a  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMICAL ECOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alternative splicing; Arabidopsis thaliana; Circadian clock; Environmental stress; Nonsense mediated decay (NMD); Transcription factor

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; ISOPROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR CLOCK;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARABIDOPSIS; CHEMISTRY; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; COLD; ENVIRONMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HEAT; METABOLISM; NONSENSE MEDIATED MRNA DECAY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PLANT GENE; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; SALINITY;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CIRCADIAN CLOCKS; CLOCK PROTEINS; COLD TEMPERATURE; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; ENVIRONMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; HOT TEMPERATURE; NONSENSE MEDIATED MRNA DECAY; PHOTOPERIOD; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; PROTEOLYSIS; RNA, MESSENGER; SALINITY; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84901601014     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712229     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2229-14-136     Document Type: Article

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