Cooperation between the chloroplast psbA 5′-untranslated region and coding region is important for translational initiation: The chloroplast translation machinery cannot read a human viral gene coding region

Plant Journal

Volumn 85, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 772-780

  Nakamura, Masayuki ^a,c   Hibi, Yurina ^b   Okamoto, Takashi ^b   Sugiura, Masahiro ^a  

^a NAGOYA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

5 untranslated region; chloroplast; human immunodeficiency virus tat gene; in vitro; initiation codon; mRNA; psbA; translation; translation initiation region

Indexed keywords

BIOSYNTHESIS; DISEASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENES; MACHINERY; PROTEINS; TOBACCO; TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES); VIRUSES;

CHLOROPLAST; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; IN-VITRO; INITIATION CODON; MRNA; PSBA; UNTRANSLATED REGIONS;

CODES (SYMBOLS);

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; MESSENGER RNA; PLANT PROTEIN; START CODON; TRANSACTIVATOR PROTEIN;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; CHLOROPLAST; ENTEROBACTERIA PHAGE T7; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RNA STABILITY; START CODON; TOBACCO;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; BACTERIOPHAGE T7; CHLOROPLASTS; CODON, INITIATOR; PLANT PROTEINS; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEIN STABILITY; RNA STABILITY; RNA, MESSENGER; TAT GENE PRODUCTS, HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; TOBACCO;

EID: 84962349389     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: 1365313X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/tpj.13150     Document Type: Article

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