title: Genes of nuclear encoded mitochondrial proteins: evidence for a variant of the 3' splice-site consensus sequence.
abstract: The introns of animal nuclear genes and of viral genes encoding protein possess at their 3' splice-site the consensus sequence (CT)11NTCAG (Mount, S.M. (1982) Nucl. Acids Res. 10, 459-472; Green, M.R. (1986) Ann. Rev. Genet. 20, 671-708). However, the total 39 introns of the 5 imported mitochondrial proteins of higher eucaryotes whose gene structure has been determined to date show a predominance of 44% for base T at position -4. Apparently, a variant consensus sequence, i.e. (CT)11TTCAG, characterizes the genes of nuclear encoded mitochondrial proteins.
authors.affiliation: Biochemisches Institut, Universität Zürich, Switzerland.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Juretić
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Jaussi
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Mattes
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Christen
mesh_terms: D000624:5-Aminolevulinate Synthetase / Q000235:genetics; D001219:Aspartate Aminotransferases / Q000235:genetics; D002223:Carbamoyl-Phosphate Synthase (Glutamine-Hydrolyzing) / Q000235:genetics; D003574:Cytochrome c Group / Q000235:genetics; D005796:Genes; D008928:Mitochondria / Q000502:physiology*; D012326:RNA Splicing; D012045:Regulatory Sequences, Nucleic Acid
chemical_list: D003574:Cytochrome c Group; D000624:5-Aminolevulinate Synthetase; D001219:Aspartate Aminotransferases; D002223:Carbamoyl-Phosphate Synthase (Glutamine-Hydrolyzing)