Identification of novel Arabidopsis thaliana upstream open reading frames that control expression of the main coding sequences in a peptide sequence-dependent manner

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 1562-1576

  Ebina, Isao ^a,c   Takemoto Tsutsumi, Mariko ^a,d   Watanabe, Shun ^a,e   Koyama, Hiroaki ^a,f   Endo, Yayoi ^a,g   Kimata, Kaori ^a   Igarashi, Takuya ^a   Murakami, Karin ^a   Kudo, Rin ^a   Ohsumi, Arisa ^a   Noh, Abdul Latif ^a   Takahashi, Hiro ^b   Naito, Satoshi ^a   Onouchi, Hitoshi ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c CHUGAI PHARMACEUTICAL CO LTD   (Japan)

^d SRD Corporation   (Japan)

^e Wakou Shokuhin Co Ltd   (Japan)

^f Nigata Prefectural Police   (Japan)

^g Forestry and Fisheries Office   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE REPRESSION; MUTATIONAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; OTLD1 GENE; PLANT GENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATOR GENE; STOP CODON; TRANSIENT EXPRESSION; UPSTREAM OPEN READING FRAME; ARABIDOPSIS; BIOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; PLANT GENOME;

ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; EUKARYOTA;

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; PEPTIDE; STOP CODON;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CODON, TERMINATOR; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENOME, PLANT; OPEN READING FRAMES; PEPTIDES; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 84934309317     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkv018     Document Type: Article

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