Characterization of two bifunctional Arabdopsis thaliana genes coding for mitochondrial and cytosolic forms of valyl-tRNA synthetase and threonyl- tRNA synthetase by alternative use of two in-frame AUGs

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 266, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 848-854

  Souciet, Ginette ^a   Menand, Benoît ^a,b   Ovesna, Jaroslava ^a,c   Cosset, Anne ^a   Dietrich, André ^a   Wintz, Henri ^a  

^a INST DE BIOL MOLEC DES PLANTES   (France)

^b IRFM   (France)

^c CROP RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Aminoacyl tRNA synthetase; GFP; Mitochondria; Translation initiation

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID TRANSFER RNA LIGASE; CELL ENZYME; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; MITOCHONDRIAL ENZYME; THREONINE; VALINE;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; ENZYME STRUCTURE; GENE ISOLATION; NONHUMAN; PLANT CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSLATION INITIATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CODON, INITIATOR; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; CYTOSOL; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; MITOCHONDRIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PLANTS, TOXIC; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; THREONINE-TRNA LIGASE; TOBACCO; TRANSFECTION; VALINE-TRNA LIGASE;

EID: 0033573157     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1327.1999.00922.x     Document Type: Article

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