The mitochondrial transcription termination factor mTERF modulates replication pausing in human mitochondrial DNA
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The mitochondrial transcription termination factor mTERF modulates replication pausing in human mitochondrial DNA
The mammalian mitochondrial transcription termination factor mTERF binds with high affinity to a site within the tRNA(Leu(UUR)) gene and regulates the amount of read through transcription from the ribosomal DNA into the remaining genes of the major coding strand of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA). Electrophoretic mobility shift assays (EMSA) and SELEX, using mitochondrial protein extracts from cells ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Nucleic Acids Research
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1362-4962,0305-1048
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkm676