Evolutionary and genetic analyses of mitochondrial translation initiation factors identify the missing mitochondrial IF3 in S. cerevisiae

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 40, Issue 13, 2012, Pages 6122-6134

  Atkinson, Gemma C ^a   Kuzmenko, Anton ^a,b   Kamenski, Piotr ^b   Vysokikh, Mikhail Y ^b,c   Lakunina, Valentina ^b   Tankov, Stoyan ^a   Smirnova, Ekaterina ^b   Soosaar, Aksel ^a   Tenson, Tanel ^a   Hauryliuk, Vasili ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^b MOSCOW STATE UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIM23 PROTEIN; INITIATION FACTOR 1; INITIATION FACTOR 2; INITIATION FACTOR 3; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; EUKARYOTE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; IN VIVO STUDY; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; ORTHOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TAXONOMY; TRANSLATION INITIATION; VERTEBRATE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; EUKARYOTIC INITIATION FACTOR-2; EUKARYOTIC INITIATION FACTOR-3; GENETIC COMPLEMENTATION TEST; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); EUKARYOTA; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84864447598     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gks272     Document Type: Article

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