The mat-r open reading frame is transcribed from a non-canonical promoter and contains an internal promoter to co-transcribe exons nad1e and nad5III in wheat mitochondria

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 959-967

  Farré, Jean Claude ^a   Araya, Alejandro ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Maturase; Nad1e nad5III; Plant mitochondria; Reverse transcriptase; RNA editing; Trans intron

Indexed keywords

GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCUS; MITOCHONDRIAL GENETICS; OPEN READING FRAME; PLANT GENETICS; PROMOTER REGION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EXONS; INTRONS; MITOCHONDRIA; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEINS; OPEN READING FRAMES; PLANT PROTEINS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RNA EDITING; RNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; TRITICUM;

EID: 0033179937     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1006296422485     Document Type: Article

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