A family of putative transcription termination factors shared amongst metazoans and plants

Current Genetics

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 265-269

  Linder, Tomas ^a   Park, Chan Bae ^a   Asin Cayuela, Jordi ^a   Pellegrini, Mina ^a   Larsson, Nils Göran ^a   Falkenberg, Maria ^a   Samuelsson, Tore ^b   Gustafsson, Claes M ^b  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Mitochondrion; mTERF; Termination; Transcription

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION FACTOR RHO;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; MITOCHONDRIAL GENETICS; MITOCHONDRIAL RESPIRATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; PLANT GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FAMILY; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION; VERTEBRATE; YEAST;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASIC-LEUCINE ZIPPER TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; HUMANS; MAMMALS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; PLANTS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

ANIMALIA; FUNGI; METAZOA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 28044471185     PISSN: 01728083     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00294-005-0022-5     Document Type: Article

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