Pentamidine inhibits mitochondrial intron splicing and translation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

RNA

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 937-951

  Zhang, Yi ^a   Bell, Achim ^b   Perlman, Philip S ^b   Leibowitz, Michael J ^a,c  

^a RUTGERS CANCER INSTITUTE OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c RUTGERS ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Intron splicing; Mitochondria; Pentamidine; Translation; Yeast

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL RNA; PENTAMIDINE;

ARTICLE; DRUG INHIBITION; DRUG POTENCY; DRUG SELECTIVITY; FUNGAL GENETICS; INTRON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA SPLICING; RNA TRANSLATION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; APOPROTEINS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL NUCLEUS; CYCLOHEXIMIDE; CYCLOOXYGENASE 1; CYTOCHROME B GROUP; CYTOCHROMES B; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ERYTHROMYCIN; INTRONS; ISOENZYMES; PENTAMIDINE; PROSTAGLANDIN-ENDOPEROXIDE SYNTHASES; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS INHIBITORS; RNA SPLICING; RNA, CATALYTIC; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; TIME FACTORS;

FUNGI; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0033913732     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1355838200991726     Document Type: Article

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