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

Authors
SAKAMOTO W TAN SH MURATA M MOTOYOSHI F
Citation
W. Sakamoto et al., 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, Plant and Cell Physiology, 38(8), 1997, pp. 975-979
Citations number
18
Categorie Soggetti
Plant Sciences
Journal title
Plant and Cell Physiology → ACNP
ISSN journal
00320781
Volume
38
Issue
8
Year of publication
1997
Pages
975 - 979
Database
ISI
SICI code
0032-0781(1997)38:8<975:AUMACF>2.0.ZU;2-U
Abstract
Properties of an unusual atp9-rpl16 cotranscript preferentially found in the maternal distorted leaf mutant of Apabidopsis thaliana, which h ad arisen from a genetic cross between chloroplast mutator and wild-ty pe plants, were examined. Analysis of RNA editing of this cotranscript showed that one editing event in the rpl16 coding region created a UG A stop codon. This raises a possibility that a downstream GUG codon ca n serve as an initiation codon for rpl16.