Usage of non-canonical promoter sequence by the yeast mitochondrial RNA polymerase

Gene

Volumn 212, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 305-314

  Biswas, Tapan K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Mitochondria; Mutagenesis; Promoter; Saccharomyces cerevisiae; Transcription

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL RNA; RNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; RNA SEQUENCE; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; MITOCHONDRIA; MUTAGENESIS, SITE-DIRECTED; OLIGORIBONUCLEOTIDES; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TEMPLATES, GENETIC; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0032496669     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(98)00133-4     Document Type: Article

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