Transfer of rps14 from the mitochondrion to the nucleus in maize implied integration within a gene encoding the iron-sulphur subunit of succinate dehydrogenase and expression by alternative splicing

Plant Journal

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 601-609

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

^a PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRON TRANSFER; GENE EXPRESSION; INTRON; MAIZE; MITOCHONDRION; PLANT GENOME; SUCCINATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CELL NUCLEUS; DNA PRIMERS; IRON-SULFUR PROTEINS; MITOCHONDRIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; RIBOSOMAL PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SUCCINATE DEHYDROGENASE; ZEA MAYS;

EMBRYOPHYTA; ZEA MAYS;

EID: 0040370341     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-313X.1999.00485.x     Document Type: Article

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