In vivo analysis of Saccharomyces cerevisiae COX2 mRNA 5'-untranslated leader functions in mitochondrial translation initiation and translational activation

Genetics

Volumn 147, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 87-100

  Dunstan, Heather M ^a   Green Willms, Noelle S ^a   Fox, Thomas D ^a  

^a Cornell University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; MESSENGER RNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; MITOCHONDRIAL RESPIRATION; MUTAGENESIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA TRANSLATION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TRANSLATION INITIATION; TRANSLATION REGULATION; YEAST;

BASE SEQUENCE; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; MITOCHONDRIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PHENOTYPE; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RNA, FUNGAL; RNA, MESSENGER; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SUPPRESSION, GENETIC; TRANS-ACTIVATION (GENETICS);

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0030930120     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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