Putative proteins related to group II intron reverse transcriptase/maturases are encoded by nuclear genes in higher plants

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 647-652

  Mohr, Georg ^a   Lambowitz, Alan M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; PLANT RNA; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE;

ARABIDOPSIS; CANONICAL ANALYSIS; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL ORGANELLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENOME; HIGHER PLANT; INTRON; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PLANT GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REVIEW; RICE; RNA SPLICING; RNA STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPLICEOSOME;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; CELL NUCLEUS; CHROMOSOME MAPPING; CHROMOSOMES, PLANT; ENDORIBONUCLEASES; GENOME, PLANT; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; OPEN READING FRAMES; ORYZA SATIVA; PHYLOGENY; PLANT PROTEINS; RNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; EMBRYOPHYTA; ORYZA SATIVA;

EID: 0037440002     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkg153     Document Type: Review

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