Mechanisms of mitochondrial DNA escape to the nucleus in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Current Genetics

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 183-194

  Shafer, Karen S ^a   Hanekamp, Theodor ^a   White, Karen H ^a   Thorsness, Peter E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

Mitochondria; Mitochondrial DNA escape; Plasmids; Yeast

Indexed keywords

FUNGAL DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; ASSAY; CELL NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; DNA TRANSFER; FUNGUS MUTANT; NONHUMAN; PLASMID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASES; CELL NUCLEUS; COLONY COUNT, MICROBIAL; CULTURE MEDIA; DNA, FUNGAL; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; PLASMIDS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SUPPRESSION, GENETIC;

ANIMALIA; FUNGI; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0032854258     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002940050489     Document Type: Article

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