Degenerated recognition property of a mitochondrial homing enzyme in the unicellular green alga Chlamydomonas smithii

Plant Molecular Biology

Volumn 62, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 141-150

  Kurokawa, Sayuri ^a   Yamasaki, Tomohito ^a   Komatsu, Teruaki ^a   Watanabe, Kazuo I ^b   Ohama, Takeshi ^a  

^a KOCHI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Adapted recognition; Coconversion; Group I intron; Horizontal transmission; Selfish genetic element

Indexed keywords

ADAPTED RECOGNITION; COCONVERSION; GROUP I INTRON; HORIZONTAL TRANSMISSION; SELFISH GENETIC ELEMENTS;

ALGAE; CELLS; DNA; GENETIC ENGINEERING;

ENZYMES;

DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE; PRIMER DNA; PROTOZOAL DNA;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHLAMYDOMONAS; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; ENZYMOLOGY; GENETICS; GENOME; METABOLISM; MITOCHONDRION; POINT MUTATION; RESTRICTION MAPPING;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ANIMALS; CHLAMYDOMONAS; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; DEOXYRIBONUCLEASES; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; GENOME, PROTOZOAN; MITOCHONDRIA; POINT MUTATION; RESTRICTION MAPPING;

ALGAE; ENZYMES; GENETIC ENGINEERING; NUCLEIC ACIDS;

ANIMALIA; CHLAMYDOMONAS; CHLAMYDOMONAS REINHARDTII; CHLAMYDOMONAS SMITHII; CHLOROPHYTA;

EID: 33748539769     PISSN: 01674412     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11103-006-9009-y     Document Type: Article

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