An algal nucleus-encoded subunit of mitochondrial ATP synthase rescues a defect in the analogous human mitochondrial-encoded subunit

Molecular Biology of the Cell

Volumn 13, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 3836-3844

  Ojaimi, Joseline ^a   Pan, Junmin ^b   Santra, Sumana ^a   Snell, William J ^b   Schon, Eric A ^a  

^a Columbia Univ Coll of Phys/Surg ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; COMPLEMENTARY DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; POLYPEPTIDE; PROTEIN PRECURSOR; PROTON TRANSPORTING ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE SYNTHASE; ALGAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; PROTON TRANSPORTING ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL VIABILITY; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; DISORDERS OF MITOCHONDRIAL FUNCTIONS; ENZYME SUBUNIT; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENE THERAPY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYDROPHOBICITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TARGETING; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CELL DIVISION; CELL LINE; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; ALGAL PROTEINS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CELL DIVISION; CELL LINE; CELL NUCLEUS; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; HUMANS; MITOCHONDRIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; PROTON-TRANSLOCATING ATPASES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 0036855408     PISSN: 10591524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1091/mbc.E02-05-0306     Document Type: Article

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