The nuclear-encoded SDH2-RPS14 precursor is proteolytically processed between SDH2 and RPS14 to generate maize mitochondrial RPS14

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 271, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 380-385

  Figueroa, Pablo ^a   Holuigue, Loreto ^a   Araya, Alejandro ^b   Jordana, Xavier ^a  

^a PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

Author keywords

Evolutionary gene transfer; Internal proteolytical processing; Iron sulfur subunit; Maize; Mitochondrial targeting peptide; Plant mitochondria; Ribosomal protein S14, RPS14; SDH2; Succinate dehydrogenase

Indexed keywords

CHIMERIC PROTEIN; IRON; PROTEIN PRECURSOR; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; RIBOSOME PROTEIN; SUCCINATE DEHYDROGENASE; SULFUR;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXON; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MAIZE; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RIBOSOME;

EMBRYOPHYTA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0034630756     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/bbrc.2000.2644     Document Type: Article

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