Yeast mitochondrial RNase P RNA synthesis is altered in an RNase P protein subunit mutant: Insights into the biogenesis of a mitochondrial RNA-processing enzyme

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 3429-3436

  Stribinskis, Vilius ^a   Gao, Guo Jian ^a   Sulo, Pavol ^b   Li Dang, Yan ^c   Martin, Nancy C ^a  

^a University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

MITOCHONDRIAL RNA; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; RIBONUCLEASE P; TRANSFER RNA;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; BIOGENESIS; MITOCHONDRION; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PHENOTYPE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RNA SYNTHESIS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

ALLELES; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; ENDORIBONUCLEASES; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MITOCHONDRIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; RIBONUCLEASE P; RNA; RNA PROBES; RNA, CATALYTIC; RNA, FUNGAL; RNA, TRANSFER, MET; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE DELETION; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0029890885     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.16.7.3429     Document Type: Article

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