Mosaic structure of the cox2 gene in the petite negative yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe: A group II intron is inserted at the same location as the otherwise unrelated group II introns in the mitochondria of higher plants

Gene

Volumn 214, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 101-112

  Schafer B ^a   Kaulich, K ^a   Wolf, K ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fission yeast; Group II intron; Mitochondria; mtDNA; Reverse transcriptase motif; Schizosaccharomyces pombe

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; POLYPEPTIDE; SERINE; THREONINE;

ARTICLE; ENZYME SUBUNIT; EXON; FUNGAL GENETICS; HIGHER PLANT; INTRON; MITOCHONDRION; MOSAICISM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; RNA SPLICING; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

ALLELES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; APOPROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CYTOCHROME B GROUP; CYTOCHROMES B; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; EXONS; GENES, FUNGAL; GENES, PLANT; INTRONS; MITOCHONDRIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOSAICISM; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PLANT PROTEINS; PLANTS; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RNA SPLICING; RNA, FUNGAL; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EMBRYOPHYTA; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 0032479395     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(98)00204-2     Document Type: Article

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