Analysis of Replication Intermediates Indicates That Drosophila melanogaster Mitochondrial DNA Replicates by a Strand-Coupled Theta Mechanism

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Jõers, Priit ^a   Jacobs, Howard T ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; ENDONUCLEASE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; NUCLEASE S1; PSORALEN; RIBOSOME RNA; SINGLE STRANDED DNA; UNTRANSLATED RNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA CROSS LINKING; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA METABOLISM; DNA REPLICATION; DNA SYNTHESIS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENE LOCUS; IMAGE PROCESSING; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SOUTHERN BLOTTING; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TWO DIMENSIONAL GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; TYPE II SECRETION SYSTEM;

ANIMALS; DNA REPLICATION; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; ELECTROPHORESIS, GEL, TWO-DIMENSIONAL; GENETIC LOCI; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; RNA, RIBOSOMAL;

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; EUKARYOTA; METAZOA;

EID: 84871875581     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0053249     Document Type: Article

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