3'-inverted repeats in plant mitochondrial mRNAs are processing signals rather than transcription terminators

EMBO Journal

Volumn 16, Issue 16, 1997, Pages 5069-5076

  Dombrowski, Saskia ^a   Brennicke, Axel ^a   Binder, Stefan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

In vitro processing; Inverted repeat; Pea atp9; Plant mitochondria

Indexed keywords

EXONUCLEASE; MESSENGER RNA; MESSENGER RNA PRECURSOR; MITOCHONDRIAL RNA;

ARTICLE; CELL LYSATE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HIGHER PLANT; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; PEA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA DEGRADATION; RNA PROCESSING; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA STRUCTURE; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION;

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; MITOCHONDRIA; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTON-TRANSLOCATING ATPASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PEAS; PLANT PROTEINS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); PROTEOLIPIDS; PROTON-TRANSLOCATING ATPASES; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RNA; RNA PRECURSORS; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA, ANTISENSE; RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, PLANT; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EMBRYOPHYTA; PISUM SATIVUM;

EID: 0030792180     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/16.16.5069     Document Type: Article

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