A stable RNA G-quadruplex within the 5′-UTR of Arabidopsis thaliana ATR mRNA inhibits translation

Biochemical Journal

Volumn 467, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 91-102

  Kwok, Chun Kit ^a,b,c   Ding, Yiliang ^a,b,d   Shahid, Saima ^a,b   Assmann, Sarah M ^a,b   Bevilacqua, Philip C ^a,b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d JOHN INNES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

5 untranslated region (5 UTR); Arabidopsis thaliana; Ataxia Telangiectasia mutated and RAD3 related (ATR); Guanine quadruplex structure (GQS); RNA structure; Translation

Indexed keywords

ATR PROTEIN; GUANINE QUADRUPLEX; MAGNESIUM ION; MESSENGER RNA; PLANT RNA; POTASSIUM ION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; ATM PROTEIN; ATR PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; RECOMBINANT DNA;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; AGROBACTERIUM; AGROBACTERIUM TUMEFACIENS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS LYRATA; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA FLANKING REGION; GENE EXPRESSION; GRAPE; IN VITRO STUDY; INTERCELLULAR SPACE; LINSEED; NICOTIANA BENTHAMIANA; NONHUMAN; PLANT CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; RICE; RNA CONFORMATION; RNA STRUCTURE; SOYBEAN; THERMOSTABILITY; ARABIDOPSIS; CHEMISTRY; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DNA DENATURATION; DOWN REGULATION; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; INVERTED REPEAT; METABOLISM; MUTATION; PLANT LEAF; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REPORTER GENE; RNA FOLDING; RNA STABILITY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TOBACCO;

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; ATAXIA TELANGIECTASIA MUTATED PROTEINS; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; DNA, RECOMBINANT; DOWN-REGULATION; G-QUADRUPLEXES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, REPORTER; INVERTED REPEAT SEQUENCES; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID DENATURATION; PLANT LEAVES; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RNA FOLDING; RNA STABILITY; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, PLANT; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TOBACCO;

EID: 84929941137     PISSN: 02646021     EISSN: 14708728     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/BJ20141063     Document Type: Article

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