Polycistronic transcription and editing of the mitochondrial small subunit (SSU) ribosomal RNA in Dictyostelium discoideum

Current Genetics

Volumn 36, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 55-61

  Barth, C ^a   Greferath, U ^b   Kotsifas, M ^a   Fisher, P R ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Walter Elisa Hall Institiute Med R ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

Mitochondria; Polycistronic transcription; Ribosomal RNA; RNA editing

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; CYTOCHROME B; MESSENGER RNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL RNA; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE DEHYDROGENASE; RIBOSOME RNA; TRANSFER RNA;

ARTICLE; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; DNA SEQUENCE; ENZYME SUBUNIT; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA EDITING;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; CYTIDINE; CYTOCHROME B GROUP; DICTYOSTELIUM; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENES; GENES, PROTOZOAN; NADH DEHYDROGENASE; RNA; RNA EDITING; RNA, PROTOZOAN; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; URIDINE;

EID: 0032848633     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002940050472     Document Type: Article

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