Splicing of the mitochondrial group-II intron rI1: Conserved intron-exon interactions diminish splicing efficiency

Current Genetics

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 117-123

  Holländer, Vera ^a   Kück, Ulrich ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chlamydomonas reinhardtii; Chloroplast in vivo splicing; Group II intron; In vitro splicing

Indexed keywords

CIS ACTING ELEMENT; MITOCHONDRIAL RNA; TRANS ACTING FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CHLOROPLAST; EXON; GENETIC TRANSFORMATION; GREEN ALGA; INTRON; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRODUCTIVITY; RNA PROCESSING; RNA SPLICING;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; EXONS; INTRONS; MITOCHONDRIA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA, CHLOROPLAST;

ALGAE; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CHLOROPHYTA; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 0031952062     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002940050316     Document Type: Article

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