Initiation and Beyond: Multiple Functions of the Human Mitochondrial Transcription Machinery

Molecular Cell

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 813-825

  Bonawitz, Nicholas D ^a,b   Clayton, David A ^c   Shadel, Gerald S ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c HOWARD HUGHES MEDICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL ENZYME; MITOCHONDRIAL RNA; RIBOSOME RNA; RNA METHYLTRANSFERASE; RNA POLYMERASE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR MTTFA; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR MTTFB1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR MTTFB2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BACTERIOPHAGE; DNA PACKAGING; DNA REPLICATION; DNA TRANSCRIPTION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP BOX DOMAIN; HUMAN; MITOCHONDRIAL GENETICS; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; RIBOSOME; RNA TRANSLATION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSCRIPTOMICS;

DNA REPLICATION; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; METHYLTRANSFERASES; MITOCHONDRIA; MODELS, GENETIC; PROTEIN BIOSYNTHESIS; RIBOSOMES; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 33845744837     PISSN: 10972765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.molcel.2006.11.024     Document Type: Review

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