Accumulation of mitochondrially synthesized Saccharomyces cerevisiae Cox2p and Cox3p depends on targeting information in untranslated portions of their mRNAs

EMBO Journal

Volumn 17, Issue 19, 1998, Pages 5796-5804

  Sanchirico, Marie E ^a   Fox, Thomas D ^b   Mason, Thomas L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b Cornell University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Membrane targeting; Mitochondrial translation; mRNA localization; mRNA specific translational activation

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL RNA;

ARTICLE; CYTOPLASM; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE LOCUS; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIBOSOME SUBUNIT; RNA TRANSLATION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

CELL COMPARTMENTATION; CELL NUCLEUS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GENES, SYNTHETIC; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MITOCHONDRIA; MODELS, GENETIC; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; RIBOSOMAL PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; TRANSFORMATION, GENETIC; UNTRANSLATED REGIONS;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0032189225     PISSN: 02614189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/emboj/17.19.5796     Document Type: Article

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