A novel motif for identifying Rps3 homologs in fungal mitochondrial genomes

Trends in Biochemical Sciences

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 363-365

  Bullerwell, Charles E ^a   Burger, Gertruad ^a   Lang, B Franz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; RIBOSOME PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; FUNGAL GENETICS; GENETIC CODE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RIBOSOME SUBUNIT;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; FUNGAL PROTEINS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MITOCHONDRIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MORTIERELLA; PHYLOGENY; RIBOSOMAL PROTEINS; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 0034255666     PISSN: 09680004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0968-0004(00)01612-1     Document Type: Article

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