Confirmation of predicted edits and demonstration of unpredicted edits in Acanthamoeba castellanii mitochondrial tRNAs

Current Genetics

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 23-29

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

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Acanthamoeba castellanii; Mitochondria; RNA editing; Transfer RNA

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL RNA; TRANSFER RNA;

ACANTHAMOEBA CASTELLANII; ANTICODON; ARTICLE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA EDITING; RNA SEQUENCE;

ACANTHAMOEBA; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; DNA, PROTOZOAN; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA; RNA EDITING; RNA PROCESSING, POST-TRANSCRIPTIONAL; RNA, PROTOZOAN; RNA, TRANSFER; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, RNA;

EID: 0033057502     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002940050428     Document Type: Article

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