Animal mitochondrial genomes

JL Boore - Nucleic acids research, 1999 - academic.oup.com
Animal mitochondrial DNA is a small, extrachromosomal genome, typically∼ 16 kb in size.
With few exceptions, all animal mitochondrial genomes contain the same 37 genes: two for …

Functions and mechanisms of RNA editing

JM Gott, RB Emeson - Annual review of genetics, 2000 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract RNA editing can be broadly defined as any site-specific alteration in an RNA
sequence that could have been copied from the template, excluding changes due to …

Boosting CRISPR/Cas9 multiplex editing capability with the endogenous tRNA-processing system

K Xie, B Minkenberg, Y Yang - Proceedings of the National …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
The clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat (CRISPR)/CRISPR-associated
protein 9 nuclease (Cas9) system is being harnessed as a powerful tool for genome …

tRNA transfers to the limelight

AK Hopper, EM Phizicky - Genes & development, 2003 - genesdev.cshlp.org
1Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Pennsylvania State University College
of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania 17033, USA; 2Department of Biochemistry and …

A novel type of RNA editing occurs in the mitochondrial tRNAs of the centipede Lithobius forficatus

DV Lavrov, WM Brown… - Proceedings of the …, 2000 - National Acad Sciences
We determined the complete mtDNA sequence of the centipede Lithobius forficatus and
found that only one of the 22 inferred tRNA genes encodes a fully paired aminoacyl acceptor …

When you can't trust the DNA: RNA editing changes transcript sequences

V Knoop - Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences, 2011 - Springer
RNA editing describes targeted sequence alterations in RNAs so that the transcript
sequences differ from their DNA template. Since the original discovery of RNA editing in …

RNA editing

A Brennicke, A Marchfelder… - FEMS microbiology …, 1999 - academic.oup.com
The term RNA editing describes those molecular processes in which the information content
is altered in an RNA molecule. To date such changes have been observed in tRNA, rRNA …

The Complete Mitochondrial Genome Sequence of the Spider Habronattus oregonensis Reveals Rearranged and Extremely Truncated tRNAs

SE Masta, JL Boore - Molecular biology and evolution, 2004 - academic.oup.com
We sequenced the entire mitochondrial genome of the jumping spider Habronattus
oregonensis of the arachnid order Araneae (Arthropoda: Chelicerata). A number of unusual …

The complete nucleotide sequence of a snake (Dinodon semicarinatus) mitochondrial genome with two identical control regions

Y Kumazawa, H Ota, M Nishida, T Ozawa - Genetics, 1998 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The 17,191-bp mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) of a Japanese colubrid snake, akamata
(Dinodon semicarinatus), was cloned and sequenced. The snake mtDNA has some peculiar …

Evolution of gastropod mitochondrial genome arrangements

C Grande, J Templado, R Zardoya - BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2008 - Springer
Background Gastropod mitochondrial genomes exhibit an unusually great variety of gene
orders compared to other metazoan mitochondrial genome such as eg those of vertebrates …