Editing status of mat-r transcripts in mitochondria from two plant species: C-to-U changes occur in putative functional RT and maturase domains

Current Genetics

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 420-428

  Bégu, Dominique ^a   Mercado, Ana ^b   Farré, Jean Claude ^a   Moenne, Alejandra ^c   Holuigue, Loreto ^b   Araya, Alejandro ^a   Jordana, Xavier ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^b PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE SANTIAGO DE CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

Maturase; Plant mitochondria; Reverse transcriptase; RNA editing

Indexed keywords

MATURASE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL RNA; PLANT RNA; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VEGETABLE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CODON; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE ISOLATION; INTRON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; POTATO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA EDITING; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; WHEAT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; CYTIDINE; CYTOSINE; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; DNA, PLANT; ENDORIBONUCLEASES; GENES, PLANT; MITOCHONDRIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; PLANT PROTEINS; RNA; RNA EDITING; RNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRITICUM; URACIL; URIDINE;

SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 0031848740     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002940050355     Document Type: Article

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