Transcription of the Dictyostelium discoideum mitochondrial genome occurs from a single initiation site

RNA

Volumn 15, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2321-2330

  Le, Phuong ^a   Fisher, Paul Robert ^a   Barth, Christian ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Dictyostelium discoideum; Mitochondrial genome; Mitochondrial transcription; Transcript processing; Transcription initiation

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT; RNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL CELL; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; DICTYOSTELIUM; DNA-DIRECTED RNA POLYMERASES; GENOME, MITOCHONDRIAL; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION SITE; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); DICTYOSTELIUM; DICTYOSTELIUM DISCOIDEUM; METAZOA; PROTISTA;

EID: 73249153261     PISSN: 13558382     EISSN: 14699001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1261/rna.1710309     Document Type: Article

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