A novel group-II intron in the cox1 gene of the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe is inserted in the same codon as the mobile group-II intron aI2 in the Saccharomyces cerevisiae cox1 homologue

Current Genetics

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 602-608

  Schafer B ^a   Wolf, K ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cox1 gene; Fission yeast; Group II intron; Intron maturase; Mitochondria; Reverse transcriptase motif; Schizosaccharomyces pombe; Secondary structure

Indexed keywords

ENDONUCLEASE; FUNGAL PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; FUNGAL GENETICS; GENE INSERTION; INTRON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYCOMYCETES; PODOSPORA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SPLICING; RNA STRUCTURE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; CODON; DNA TRANSPOSABLE ELEMENTS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; EXONS; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

ALLOMYCES; FUNGI; MARCHANTIA; MYXOGASTRIA; PHYCOMYCETES; PODOSPORA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE;

EID: 0344563488     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002940050458     Document Type: Article

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