Splicing and intron-internal RNA editing of trnK-matK transcripts in barley plastids: Support for MatK as an essential splice factor

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 270, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 179-187

  Vogel, Jörg ^b   Hübschmann, Thomas ^b   Börner, Thomas ^b   Hess, Wolfgang R ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Group II intron; Hordeum vulgare; Maturase; Reverse transcriptase; RNase protection assay

Indexed keywords

ENZYME; TRANSFER RNA;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BARLEY; CODON; EXON; GENE MUTATION; HIGHER PLANT; INTRON; LACTOCOCCUS; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; PLASTID; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA EDITING; RNA SPLICING; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; YEAST;

EMBRYOPHYTA; HORDEUM; HORDEUM VULGARE SUBSP. VULGARE; LACTOCOCCUS;

EID: 17044461720     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1997.1115     Document Type: Article

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