Mitochondrial DNA acts as potential promoter of the baculovirus RNA polymerase

Biological Chemistry

Volumn 380, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 579-583

  Mans, Ruud M W ^a,b   Knebel Mörsdorf, Dagmar ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b Object Systems   (Netherlands)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR NEUROLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Baculovirus RNA polymerase; Helix stability; In vitro transcription; mtDNA; TAAG sequences

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; RNA POLYMERASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; AUTOGRAPHA CALIFORNICA; BACULOVIRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; LEPIDOPTERA; MOLECULAR STABILITY; NONHUMAN; POLYHEDROSIS VIRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEOPOLYHEDROVIRUS; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); SPODOPTERA; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA; AUTOGRAPHA CALIFORNICA; AUTOGRAPHA CALIFORNICA NUCLEOPOLYHEDROVIRUS; CYPOVIRUS; LEPIDOPTERA; SPODOPTERA FRUGIPERDA; UNIDENTIFIED BACULOVIRUS; UNIDENTIFIED NUCLEAR POLYHEDROSIS VIRUSES;

EID: 0345593633     PISSN: 14316730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/BC.1999.073     Document Type: Article

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