NMAT1, a nuclear-encoded maturase involved in the trans-splicing of nad1 intron 1, is essential for mitochondrial complex i assembly and function

Plant Journal

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 413-426

  Keren, Ido ^a,b   Tal, Liat ^a,b   Des Francs Small, Catherine C ^c   Araújo, Wagner L ^d,e   Shevtsov, Sofia ^a   Shaya, Felix ^a   Fernie, Alisdair R ^d   Small, Ian ^c   Ostersetzer Biran, Oren ^a  

^a VOLCANI CENTER   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PLANT PHYSIOLOGY   (Germany)

^e FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF VIÇOSA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis; group II; intron; maturase; mitochondria; splicing

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; GROUP II; INTRON; MATURASE; MITOCHONDRIAL COMPLEX; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOMES; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEIN; PROTEIN-CODING GENES; RESPIRATION ACTIVITY; STRESS RESPONSE; TRANS-SPLICING;

CABLE JOINTING; GENE EXPRESSION; PROTEINS;

MITOCHONDRIA;

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; MAT1 MATURASE; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEIN; NMAT1A PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASE; PLANT RNA; REACTIVE OXYGEN METABOLITE; RNA; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; RNA, MITOCHONDRIAL;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL RESPIRATION; ENZYMOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENETICS; INTRON; METABOLISM; METABOLOME; MITOCHONDRION; MUTATION; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; TRANS SPLICING; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CELL NUCLEUS; CELL RESPIRATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENE KNOCKOUT TECHNIQUES; INTRONS; METABOLOME; MITOCHONDRIA; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEINS; MUTATION; NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; PHENOTYPE; REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES; RNA; RNA, PLANT; RNA-DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TRANS-SPLICING;

ARABIDOPSIS; MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

EID: 84864432798     PISSN: 09607412     EISSN: 1365313X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-313X.2012.04998.x     Document Type: Article

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