In vivo analysis of mutated initiation codons in the mitochondrial COX2 gene of Saccharomyces cerevisiae fused to the reporter gene ARG8m reveals lack of downstream reinitiation

Molecular and General Genetics

Volumn 262, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1036-1046

  Bonnefoy, N ^a,b   Fox, T D ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b CENTRE DE GÉNÉTIQUE MOLÉCULAIRE   (France)

Author keywords

Downstream initiation; Mitochondrial translation; Saccharomyces cerevisiae; Translation initiation

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; HYBRID PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PROTEIN PRECURSOR;

ARTICLE; CHIMERA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FUNGUS GROWTH; GENE FUSION; GENE INSERTION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPORTER GENE; RNA TRANSLATION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; START CODON; TRANSLATION INITIATION;

FUNGI; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 0033959624     PISSN: 00268925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00008646     Document Type: Article

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