The anticodon and the D-domain sequences are essential determinants for plant cytosolic tRNAVal import into mitochondria

Plant Journal

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 623-633

  Delage, Ludovic ^a,b   Duchêne, Anne Marie ^a   Zaepfel, Marlyse ^a   Maréchal Drouard, Laurence ^a  

^a INST DE BIOL MOLEC DES PLANTES   (France)

^b STATION BIOLOGIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

Identity elements; Mitochondria; Targeting specificity; tRNA import

Indexed keywords

CELLS; RNA;

MITOCHONDRIA;

PLANTS (BOTANY);

ACYLATION; ANTICODON; ARABIDOPSIS; BASE SEQUENCE; CYTOSOL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; KINETICS; MITOCHONDRIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; RNA TRANSPORT; RNA, TRANSFER, VAL; TOBACCO;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA; EMBRYOPHYTA; NICOTIANA TABACUM; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0038129639     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313X.2003.01752.x     Document Type: Article

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