Overexpression of the COX2 translational activator, Pet111p, prevents translation of COX1 mRNA and cytochrome c oxidase assembly in mitochondria of Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Molecular Microbiology

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1689-1704

  Fiori, Alessandro ^a   Perez Martinez, Xochitl ^a,b   Fox, Thomas D ^a  

^a Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics   (United States)

^b INSTITUTO DE FISIOLOGÍA CELULAR   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; FUNGAL PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; MITOCHONDRIAL RNA; PROTEIN COX1; PROTEIN COX2; PROTEIN MSS51P; PROTEIN PET111P; PROTEIN PET309P; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; MISSENSE MUTATION; MITOCHONDRIAL GENETICS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTERACTION; RNA TRANSLATION; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; UNTRANSLATED REGION;

CYCLOOXYGENASE 1; CYCLOOXYGENASE 2; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; MITOCHONDRIA; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PROSTAGLANDIN-ENDOPEROXIDE SYNTHASES; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RNA, MESSENGER; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS;

SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE;

EID: 20344371485     PISSN: 0950382X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.2005.04658.x     Document Type: Article

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