Maturase K
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| Symbol | matK | ||||||
| UniProt | P56784 | ||||||
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Maturase K (matK) is a plant plastidial gene.[1] The protein it encodes is an intron maturase, a protein that splices introns. Amongst other maturases, this protein retains only a well conserved domain X and remnants of a reverse transcriptase domain.[2]
Universal matK primers can be used for DNA barcoding of angiosperms.[3]
See also
- LtrA, an open reading frame found in the Lactococcus lactis group II introns LtrB. It is an intron-encoded protein, whith three subdomains, one of which is a reverse-transcriptase/maturase.
References
- ^ Zoschke, R.; Nakamura, M.; Liere, K.; Sugiura, M.; Borner, T.; Schmitz-Linneweber, C. (2010). "An organellar maturase associates with multiple group II introns". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 107 (7): 3245. doi:10.1073/pnas.0909400107.
- ^ Mohr, G; Perlman, PS; Lambowitz, AM (1993). "Evolutionary relationships among group II intron-encoded proteins and identification of a conserved domain that may be related to maturase function". Nucleic acids research. 21 (22): 4991–7. PMC 310608. PMID 8255751.
- ^ Yu, Jing; Xue, Jian-Hua; Zhou, Shi-Liang (2011). "New universal matK primers for DNA barcoding angiosperms". Journal of Systematics and Evolution. 49 (3): 176. doi:10.1111/j.1759-6831.2011.00134.x.
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