Open AccessAnalysis of the regions coding for transfer RNAs inKluyveromyces lactismitochondrial DNA
Author(s) -
Cathal Wilson,
Antonella RagniniWilson,
Hiroshi Fukuhara
Publication year - 1989
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/17.12.4485
Subject(s) - biology , kluyveromyces lactis , genetics , transfer rna , gene , mitochondrial dna , intergenic region , ribosomal rna , palindromic sequence , rna , intron , dna , palindrome , saccharomyces cerevisiae , crispr , genome
The major regions coding for the transfer RNA genes in the mitochondrial DNA of K. lactis were studied. Twenty one, out of a supposed twenty four tRNA genes were identified and localized with respect to other mitochondrial genes. Most of the tRNA genes were found in a cluster downstream of the large ribosomal RNA gene. The order of a few groups of genes is conserved with respect to S. cerevisiae and T. glabrata. The highly diverged intergenic sequences contained a large number of guanine-cytosine clusters which frequently formed long palindromic sequences.