Self-splicing activity of the mitochondrial group-I introns from Aspergillus nidulans and related introns from other species

Current Genetics

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 399-407

  Hur, Moonkyung ^a   Geese, William J ^a   Waring, Richard B ^a  

^a Temple University   (United States)

Author keywords

Group I intron; mitochondrial genome; RNA splicing; Saccharomyces cerevisiae mitochondria

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME SUBUNIT; GENOME; INTRON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; RNA SPLICING; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

APOPROTEINS; ASCOMYCOTA; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; BASE SEQUENCE; CYTOCHROME B GROUP; CYTOCHROMES B; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA SPLICING; RNA, FUNGAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

ASPERGILLUS; EMERICELLA NIDULANS; FUNGI; MYXOGASTRIA; PODOSPORA ANSERINA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0031440133     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002940050294     Document Type: Article

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