Isolation of rat mitochondrial transcription factor A (r-Tfam) cDNA

Mitochondrial DNA

Volumn 11, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 131-135

  Inagaki, Hidetoshi ^a   Hayashi, Toshihiko ^b   Matsushima, Yuichi ^c   Lin, Kong Hua ^d   Maeda, Sumio ^a   Ichihara, Shigeyuki ^b   Kitagawa, Yasuo ^c   Saito, Takao ^a  

^a Department of Chemistry   (Japan)

^b MEIJO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

HMG box; mitochondria; testis; Tfam

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CDNA LIBRARY; CLONE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; DNA PROBE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HUMAN; MITOCHONDRIAL GENETICS; MOUSE; RAT; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR A;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CEREBELLUM; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP PROTEINS; HUMANS; MALE; MICE; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RATS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TESTIS; TRANS-ACTIVATORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; XENOPUS PROTEINS;

EID: 0033923917     PISSN: 19401736     EISSN: 19401744     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/10425170009033980     Document Type: Article

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