Hitting the brakes: Termination of mitochondrial transcription

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Gene Regulatory Mechanisms

Volumn 1819, Issue 9-10, 2012, Pages 939-947

  Guja, Kip E ^a,b   Garcia Diaz, Miguel ^b  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gene expression; Mitochondria; Mitochondrial transcription termination; MTERF

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; HIGH MOBILITY GROUP PROTEIN; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEIN; MITOCHONDRIAL TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION FACTOR 1; NUCLEOTIDE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DNA BINDING; GENE MAPPING; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; KEARNS SAYRE SYNDROME; MELAS SYNDROME; MITOCHONDRIAL ENCEPHALOPATHY; MITOCHONDRIAL GENE; MITOCHONDRIAL MYOPATHY; NONHUMAN; OPTIC NERVE DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

AGING; ANIMALS; BASIC-LEUCINE ZIPPER TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; MITOCHONDRIA; MITOCHONDRIAL DISEASES; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEINS; MUTATION; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84864305019     PISSN: 18749399     EISSN: 18764320     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagrm.2011.11.004     Document Type: Review

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