Group-I introns in the cytochrome c oxidase genes of Dictyostelium discoideum: Two related ORFs in one loop of a group-I intron, a cox1/2hybrid gene and an unusually large cox3 gene

Current Genetics

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 80-88

  Ogawa, Shinji ^a   Matsuo, Kuniko ^a   Angata, Kiyohiko ^a   Yanagisawa, Kaichiro ^a   Tanaka, Yoshimasa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cytochrome oxidase; Dictyostelium discoideum; Group I intron; Mitochondrial DNA

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME SUBUNIT; EVOLUTION; GENE INSERTION; INTRON; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CLONING, MOLECULAR; DICTYOSTELIUM; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; ENDONUCLEASES; ENDORIBONUCLEASES; INTRONS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHYLOGENY; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; VIRAL PROTEINS;

ACRASIDA; ALGAE; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; MYXOGASTRIA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0031039612     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002940050179     Document Type: Article

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