Mitochondrial RNase P RNAs in ascomycete fungi: Lineage-specific variations in RNA secondary structure

RNA

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1073-1083

  Seif, Elias R ^a   Forget, Lise ^a   Martin, Nancy C ^b   Lang, B Franz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Evolution; Organelle; Phylogenetic modeling; RNA processing; rnpB; Yeasts

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL RNA; RIBONUCLEASE P; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN;

ARTICLE; ASCOMYCETES; ASPERGILLUS NIDULANS; BACTERIAL GENETICS; BACTERIUM; DNA TEMPLATE; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EVOLUTION; FUNGAL GENETICS; FUNGUS; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PICHIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA PROCESSING; RNA STRUCTURE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; YEAST;

ASCOMYCOTA; BASE SEQUENCE; ENDORIBONUCLEASES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MITOCHONDRIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; PHYLOGENY; RIBONUCLEASE P; RNA; RNA, CATALYTIC;

ASCOMYCOTA; ASPERGILLUS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EMERICELLA NIDULANS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FUNGI; NEPHROSELMIS; NEPHROSELMIS OLIVACEA; PICHIA; PICHIA CANADENSIS; PROTISTA; RECLINOMONAS AMERICANA; SACCHAROMYCES; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCETALES; SACCHAROMYCOPSIS; SACCHAROMYCOPSIS FIBULIGERA; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES OCTOSPORUS; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCETACEAE; TAPHRINA; TAPHRINA DEFORMANS;

EID: 0042333223     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1261/rna.5880403     Document Type: Article

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