Mutations of the two-nucleotide bulge of D5 of a group II intron block splicing in vitro and in vivo: Phenotypes and suppressor mutations

RNA

Volumn 2, Issue 11, 1996, Pages 1161-1172

  Schmidt, Udo ^a   Podar, Mircea ^b   Stahl, Ulf ^a   Perlman, Philip S ^b,c  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

group II intron; ribozyme; RNA structure; splicing; yeast mitochondria

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; NUCLEOTIDE;

ARTICLE; BINDING KINETICS; GENE MUTATION; GENE REPRESSION; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SPLICING; RNA STRUCTURE; YEAST;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENES, FUNGAL; INTRONS; MUTATION; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PHENOTYPE; RNA SPLICING; RNA, FUNGAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SUPPRESSION, GENETIC;

EID: 0029909477     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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