Characterization of Neurospora mitochondrial group I introns reveals different CYT-18 dependent and independent splicing strategies and an alternative 3′ splice site for an intron ORF

RNA

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 114-131

  Wallweber, Gerald J ^a   Mohr, Sabine ^a   Rennard, Rachel ^a   Caprara, Mark G ^a   Lambowitz, Alan M ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aminoacyl tRNA synthetase; Endonuclease; Intron mobility; Ribozyme; RNA structure

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; TYROSINE TRANSFER RNA LIGASE;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; INTRON; MITOCHONDRION; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; RNA SPLICING; RNA STRUCTURE;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; INTRONS; MITOCHONDRIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEUROSPORA CRASSA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; OPEN READING FRAMES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, FUNGAL; TYROSINE-TRNA LIGASE;

EID: 0031017118     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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