Regulation of DNA replication at the end of the mitochondrial D-loop involves the helicase TWINKLE and a conserved sequence element

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 43, Issue 19, 2015, Pages 9262-9275

  Jemt, Elisabeth ^a   Persson, Örjan ^a   Shi, Yonghong ^a   Mehmedovic, Majda ^a   Uhler, Jay P ^a   López, Marcela Dávila ^a   Freyer, Christoph ^b   Gustafsson, Claes M ^a   Samuelsson, Tore ^a   Falkenberg, Maria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HELICASE; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; TWINKLE PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; 7SL RNA; C10ORF2 PROTEIN, HUMAN; DNA HELICASE; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEIN; SIGNAL RECOGNITION PARTICLE; SMALL CYTOPLASMIC RNA;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; 5' UNTRANSLATED REGION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA REPLICATION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENOMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DNA INTERACTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION; VERTEBRATE; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMISTRY; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; GENETICS; HELA CELL LINE; HUMAN; INVERTED REPEAT; METABOLISM; MOUSE; NUCLEOTIDE MOTIF; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REGULATORY SEQUENCE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA HELICASES; DNA REPLICATION; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; HELA CELLS; HUMANS; INVERTED REPEAT SEQUENCES; MICE; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEINS; NUCLEOTIDE MOTIFS; REGULATORY SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID; RNA, SMALL CYTOPLASMIC; SIGNAL RECOGNITION PARTICLE; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION, GENETIC; VERTEBRATES;

EID: 84959450255     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkv804     Document Type: Article

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