[HTML][HTML] The mitochondrial genome: structure, transcription, translation and replication

JW Taanman - Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-Bioenergetics, 1999 - Elsevier
Mitochondria play a central role in cellular energy provision. The organelles contain their
own genome with a modified genetic code. The mammalian mitochondrial genome is …

Multiple sigma subunits and the partitioning of bacterial transcription space

TM Gruber, CA Gross - Annual Reviews in Microbiology, 2003 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract Promoter recognition in eubacteria is carried out by the initiation factor sigma,
which binds RNA polymerase and initiates transcription. Cells have one housekeeping …

[HTML][HTML] The two RNA polymerases encoded by the nuclear and the plastid compartments transcribe distinct groups of genes in tobacco plastids

PTJ Hajdukiewicz, LA Allison, P Maliga - The EMBO journal, 1997 - embopress.org
The plastid genome in photosynthetic higher plants encodes subunits of an Escherichia coli‐
like RNA polymerase (PEP) which initiates transcription from E. coli σ 70‐type promoters …

Complete mtDNA sequences of two millipedes suggest a new model for mitochondrial gene rearrangements: duplication and nonrandom loss

DV Lavrov, JL Boore, WM Brown - Molecular biology and …, 2002 - academic.oup.com
We determined the complete mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) sequences of the millipedes
Narceus annularus and Thyropygus sp.(Arthropoda: Diplopoda) and identified, in both …

Structure of a transcribing T7 RNA polymerase initiation complex

GMT Cheetham, TA Steitz - Science, 1999 - science.org
The structure of a T7 RNA polymerase (T7 RNAP) initiation complex captured transcribing a
trinucleotide of RNA from a 17–base pair promoter DNA containing a 5-nucleotide single …

The transcription machineries of plant mitochondria and chloroplasts: composition, function, and regulation

K Liere, A Weihe, T Börner - Journal of plant physiology, 2011 - Elsevier
Although genomes of mitochondria and plastids are very small compared to those of their
bacterial ancestors, the transcription machineries of these organelles are of surprising …

Organellar RNA polymerases of higher plants

WR Hess, T Börner - International review of cytology, 1999 - Elsevier
The nuclear genome of the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana contains a small gene family
consisting of three genes encoding RNA polymerases of the single-subunit bacteriophage …

The Highly Rearranged Mitochondrial Genome of the Plague Thrips, Thrips imaginis (Insecta: Thysanoptera): Convergence of Two Novel Gene Boundaries and an …

R Shao, SC Barker - Molecular Biology and Evolution, 2003 - academic.oup.com
To help understand the mechanisms of gene rearrangement in the mitochondrial (mt)
genomes of hemipteroid insects, we sequenced the mt genome of the plague thrips, Thrips …

Transcription and transcriptional regulation in plastids

K Liere, T Börner - Cell and molecular biology of plastids, 2007 - Springer
This chapter describes the components of the transcriptional apparatus in plastids (RNA
polymerases, promoters, transcription factors) and their roles in transcription. The …

Phage-Type RNA Polymerase RPOTmp Performs Gene-Specific Transcription in Mitochondria of Arabidopsis thaliana

K Kuhn, U Richter, EH Meyer, E Delannoy… - The Plant …, 2009 - academic.oup.com
Transcription of mitochondrial genes in animals, fungi, and plants relies on the activity of
T3/T7 phage-type RNA polymerases. Two such enzymes, RPOTm and RPOTmp, are …