The Neurospora crassa cya-5 nuclear gene encodes a protein with a region of homology to the Saccharomyces cerevisiae PET309 protein and is required in a post-transcriptional step for the expression of the mitochondrially encoded COXI protein

Current Genetics

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 273-280

  Coffin, John W ^a   Dhillon, R ^a   Ritzel, R Gary ^a   Nargang, Frank E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

COXI translation; cya 5; Cytochrome c oxidase; Mitochondria; Neurospora

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; FUNGAL PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; ENZYME DEFICIENCY; GENE MUTATION; INTRON; MITOCHONDRION; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; GENES, FUNGAL; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MITOCHONDRIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; OPEN READING FRAMES; PLANTS, TOXIC; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TOBACCO;

NEUROSPORA; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0030671215     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002940050277     Document Type: Article

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