Cloning and characterization of mouse mTERF encoding a mitochondrial transcriptional termination factor

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 326, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 505-510

  Li, Xiaoming ^a   Zhang, Linda S ^a   Guan, Min Xin ^a,b  

^a Cincinnati Children's Hosp Med C   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cloning; Expression; GFP; Isoform; Mitochondrial transcription termination; Northern blot; RNA; Sub cellular localization

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HYBRID PROTEIN; MITOCHONDRIAL TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA ISOLATION; EMBRYO; EXON; GENE EXPRESSION; HEART; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; INTRON; LIVER; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR CLONING; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NORTHERN BLOTTING; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CLONING, MOLECULAR; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; MICE; MITOCHONDRIAL PROTEINS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NIH 3T3 CELLS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 9944226166     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2004.11.057     Document Type: Article

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