Duplication and quadruplication of Arabidopsis thaliana cysteinyl- and asparaginyl-tRNA synthetase genes of organellar origin

Journal of Molecular Evolution

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 413-423

  Peeters, Nemo M ^a   Chapron, Anne ^a   Giritch, Anatoli ^a,b   Grandjean, Olier ^a   Lancelin, Dominique ^a   Lhomme, Tatiana ^a   Vivrel, Arnaud ^a   Small, Ian ^a  

^a CEMAGREF   (France)

^b INSTITUTE OF CELL BIOLOGY AND GENETIC ENGINEERING   (Ukraine)

Author keywords

Aminoacyl tRNA synthetase; Dual targeting; Gene duplication; Mitochondria; Plastids

Indexed keywords

AMINOACYL TRANSFER RNA; ASPARAGINE TRANSFER RNA; CYSTEINE TRANSFER RNA; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; SYNTHETASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CELL ORGANELLE; CYTOSOL; EXPRESSION VECTOR; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PLASTID; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; EMBRYOPHYTA;

EID: 0033921125     PISSN: 00222844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002390010044     Document Type: Article

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