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. 1987 Dec 23;15(24):10083–10086. doi: 10.1093/nar/15.24.10083

Genes of nuclear encoded mitochondrial proteins: evidence for a variant of the 3' splice-site consensus sequence.

N Juretić 1, R Jaussi 1, U Mattes 1, P Christen 1
PMCID: PMC339931  PMID: 2827115

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.

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