Expression of the two chloroplast-like tRNA(Asn) genes in potato mitochondria: Mapping of transcription initiation sites present in the trnN1-trnY-nad2 cluster and upstream of trnN2

Current Genetics

Volumn 36, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 49-54

  Fey, Julien ^a   Maréchal Drouard, Laurence ^a  

^a INST DE BIOL MOLEC DES PLANTES   (France)

Author keywords

Chloroplast like tRNA gene; nad2; Plant mitochondrial promoter

Indexed keywords

PLANT DNA; TRANSFER RNA;

ARTICLE; CHLOROPLAST; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MAPPING; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

BASE SEQUENCE; CHLOROPLASTS; CLONING, MOLECULAR; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EXONS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, DUPLICATE; GENES, PLANT; GENOME, PLANT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); RNA, MESSENGER; RNA, PLANT; RNA, TRANSFER, ASN; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0345035446     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002940050471     Document Type: Article

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