A long open reading frame in the mitochondrial LSU rRNA group-I intron of Cryphonectria parasitica encodes a putative S5 ribosomal protein fused to a maturase

Current Genetics

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 109-117

  Hausner, Georg ^a   Monteiro Vitorello, Claudia B ^a,c   Searles, Denise B ^a   Maland, Matthew ^a   Fulbright, Dennis W ^b   Bertrand, Helmut ^a  

^a Michigan State University ^*  (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cryphonectria parasitica; Maturase; Mitochondrial group I intron; S5 ribosomal protein

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; RIBOSOME DNA; RIBOSOME PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CODON; FUNGUS; GENE SEQUENCE; INTRON; MITOCHONDRION; OPEN READING FRAME; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ASCOMYCOTA; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ENDORIBONUCLEASES; FUNGAL PROTEINS; INTRONS; MITOCHONDRIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; OPEN READING FRAMES; RIBONUCLEOPROTEINS, SMALL NUCLEAR; RIBOSOMAL PROTEINS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID;

CRYPHONECTRIA PARASITICA; FUNGI; TEREBRANTIA;

EID: 0032993948     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002940050439     Document Type: Article

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