Early zygote-specific nuclease in mitochondria of the true slime mold Physarum polycephalum

Current Genetics

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 334-343

  Moriyama, Yohsuke ^a   Yamazaki, Tomokazu ^a   Nomura, Hideo ^a   Sasaki, Narie ^b   Kawano, Shigeyuki ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b OCHANOMIZU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Isogamous mating; Mitochondrial transmission genetics; Myxomycetes; Uniparental inheritance

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; DNA BINDING PROTEIN; FUNGAL DNA; MANGANESE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; NUCLEASE;

ARTICLE; DNA BINDING; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA METABOLISM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; EXTRACHROMOSOMAL INHERITANCE; FUNGAL STRAIN; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MITOCHONDRIAL GENETICS; NONHUMAN; PHYSARUM POLYCEPHALUM; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; ZYGOTE; ZYMOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GEL; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; MITOCHONDRIA; PHYSARUM POLYCEPHALUM; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; ZYGOTE;

MYXOGASTRIA; PHYSARUM POLYCEPHALUM;

EID: 28044449355     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00294-005-0025-2     Document Type: Article

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