Carotenogenesis is regulated by 5‘UTR-mediated translation of phytoene synthase splice variants

Plant Physiology

Volumn 172, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 2314-2326

  Álvarez, Daniel ^a   Voß, Björn ^a,b   Maass, Dirk ^a,c   Wüst, Florian ^a   Schaub, Patrick ^a   Beyer, Peter ^a   Welsch, Ralf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^c Sirona Dental Systems GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; BETA GLUCURONIDASE; CAROTENOID; MULTIENZYME COMPLEX; PRELYCOPERSENE PYROPHOSPHATE SYNTHETASE;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARABIDOPSIS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; BIOSYNTHESIS; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PLANT LEAF; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; REPORTER GENE;

5' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CAROTENOIDS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, REPORTER; GLUCURONIDASE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; PLANT LEAVES; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS;

EID: 84998980879     PISSN: 00320889     EISSN: 15322548     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1104/pp.16.01262     Document Type: Article

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