Gene structure of the human mitochondrial outer membrane receptor Tom20 and evolutionary study of its family of processed pseudogenes

Gene

Volumn 239, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 283-291

  Hernández, José M ^a   Giner, Patricia ^a   Hernández Yago, José ^a  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN PRÍNCIPE FELIPE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Human Tom20; Mitochondria; Mitochondrial protein receptor; Molecular evolution; Nuclear gene

Indexed keywords

OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; GENE SEQUENCE; GENE STRUCTURE; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOGENE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EXONS; GENES; HUMANS; INTRONS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MITOCHONDRIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLY A; PSEUDOGENES; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 19244383139     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(99)00409-6     Document Type: Article

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