A novel nucleotide incorporation activity implicated in the editing of mitochondrial transfer RNAs in Acanthamoeba castellanii

RNA

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 302-317

  Price, David H ^a   Gray, Michael W ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

3' to 5' tRNA nucleotidyltransferase; Nucleotide addition; Pre tRNA processing

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ENDONUCLEASE; EXONUCLEASE; LEUCINE TRANSFER RNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASE; TRANSFER RNA; TYROSINE TRANSFER RNA;

ACANTHAMOEBA CASTELLANII; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA PROCESSING; RNA STRUCTURE;

ACANTHAMOEBA; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ANIMALS; ASPERGILLUS NUCLEASE S1; BASE SEQUENCE; ENDONUCLEASES; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXONUCLEASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEOTIDES; NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; RNA; RNA EDITING; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA, TRANSFER; RNA, TRANSFER, LEU; RNA, TRANSFER, TYR; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

ACANTHAMOEBA CASTELLANII; ESCHERICHIA; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0032992906     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1355838299981840     Document Type: Article

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