A ribosomal protein gene cluster is encoded in the mitochondrial DNA of Dictyostelium discoideum: UGA termination codons and similarity of gene order to Acanthamoeba castellanii

Current Genetics

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 304-310

  Iwamoto, Masao ^a,b   Pi, Min ^a   Kurihara, Mika ^a   Morio, Takahiro ^a   Tanaka, Yoshimasa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AGROBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dictyostelium discoideum; Gene cluster; Mitochondrial DNA; Ribosomal protein gene

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; RIBOSOME PROTEIN;

ACANTHAMOEBA CASTELLANII; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; GENE CLUSTER; GENE ORDER; MOULD; NONHUMAN; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOP CODON;

ACANTHAMOEBA; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CODON, TERMINATOR; DICTYOSTELIUM; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; DNA, PROTOZOAN; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENES, FUNGAL; GENES, PROTOZOAN; GENETIC CODE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; OPEN READING FRAMES; RESTRICTION MAPPING; RIBOSOMAL PROTEINS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ACANTHAMOEBA CASTELLANII; ACRASIDA; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; MYXOGASTRIA; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0031944366     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002940050341     Document Type: Article

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