Mitochondrial RNAs of myxomycetes terminate with non-encoded 3' poly(U) tails | Zendy

Tamara L. Horton | Zendy

AI Assistant Blog Pricing

Home ZAIA Blog

Open Access

Mitochondrial RNAs of myxomycetes terminate with non-encoded 3' poly(U) tails

Author(s) -

Tamara L. Horton

Publication year - 2000

Publication title -

nucleic acids research

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 9.008

H-Index - 537

eISSN - 1362-4954

pISSN - 0305-1048

DOI - 10.1093/nar/28.23.4750

Subject(s) - physarum polycephalum , biology , cytochrome c oxidase , protein subunit , physarum , messenger rna , microbiology and biotechnology , rna , oxidase test , gene , mitochondrion , biochemistry , enzyme

We examined the 3' ends of edited RNAs from the myxomycetes Stemonitis flavogenita and Physarum polycephalum using a modified anchor PCR approach. Surprisingly, we found that poly(A) tails are missing from the cytochrome c oxidase subunit 1 mRNA (coI) from both species and the cytochrome c oxidase subunit 3 mRNA (cox3) from P. polycephalum. Instead, non-encoded poly(U) tails of varying length were discovered at the 3' ends of these transcripts. These are the first described examples of 3' poly(U) tails on mature mRNAs in any system.

The content you want is available to Zendy users.

Already have an account? Click here to sign in.

Having issues? You can contact us here

Accelerating Research