An Unusual Mitochondrial atp9-rpl16 Cotranscript Found in the Maternal Distorted Leaf Mutant of Arabidopsis thaliana: Implication of GUG as an Initiation Codon in Plant Mitochondria.

Autor: Sakamoto, Wataru, Tan, Siang-Hee, Murata, Minoru, Motoyoshi, Fusao
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Zdroj: Plant & Cell Physiology; Aug1997, Vol. 38 Issue 8, p975-979, 5p
Abstrakt: Properties of an unusual atp9-rpl16 cotranscript preferentially found in the maternal distorted leaf mutant of Arabidopsis thaliana, which had arisen from a genetic cross between chloroplast mutator and wild-type plants, were examined. Analysis of RNA editing of this cotranscript showed that one editing event in the rpll6 coding region created a UGA stop codon. This raises a possibility that a downstream GUG codon can serve as an initiation codon for rpll6. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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