PPR (pentatricopeptide repeat) proteins in mammals: Important aids to mitochondrial gene expression

Biochemical Journal

Volumn 416, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Lightowlers, Robert N ^a   Chrzanowska Lightowlers, Zofia M A ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gene expression; Mitochondrion; Pentatricopeptide repeat protein; Post transcriptional regulation; Respiratory chain; RNA

Indexed keywords

BINDING PROTEIN; CYTOCHROME B; CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEIN; PENTATRICOPEPTIDE REPEAT PROTEIN; RIBOSOME PROTEIN; RNA; RNA POLYMERASE; UBIQUINOL CYTOCHROME C REDUCTASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; DNA DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASE; LRPPRC PROTEIN, HUMAN; POLRMT PROTEIN, HUMAN; PTCD2 PROTEIN, MOUSE; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; TUMOR PROTEIN;

CELL ORGANELLE; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE MUTATION; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; LEIGH DISEASE; MAMMAL; MULTIGENE FAMILY; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PATHOGENESIS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEPLETION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; RESPIRATORY CHAIN; RNA BINDING; RNA EDITING; RNA TRANSLATION; ANIMAL; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MITOCHONDRIAL GENE; MITOCHONDRION; MOUSE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN MOTIF;

MAMMALIA;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; ANIMALS; CYTOCHROMES B; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; GENE EXPRESSION; GENES, MITOCHONDRIAL; HUMANS; MICE; MITOCHONDRIA; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEINS; NEOPLASM PROTEINS; RNA EDITING; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS;

EID: 56049084211     PISSN: 02646021     EISSN: 14708728     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1042/BJ20081942     Document Type: Note

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