tL(UAA)Q

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Systematic name tL(UAA)Q
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Feature type tRNA
Coordinates Mito:66095..66179
Primary SGDID S000007324


Description of tL(UAA)Q: Mitochondrial leucine tRNA (tRNA-Leu), predicted by tRNAscan-SE analysis; required for mitochondrial translation and indirectly for maintenance of the mitochondrial genome; mutations in the orthologous human gene cause the neurological disease MELAS[1][2][3]




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References

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  1. Chan PP and Lowe TM (2009) GtRNAdb: a database of transfer RNA genes detected in genomic sequence. Nucleic Acids Res 37(Database issue):D93-7 SGD PMID 18984615
  2. Feuermann M, et al. (2003) The yeast counterparts of human 'MELAS' mutations cause mitochondrial dysfunction that can be rescued by overexpression of the mitochondrial translation factor EF-Tu. EMBO Rep 4(1):53-8 SGD PMID 12524521
  3. Foury F, et al. (1998) The complete sequence of the mitochondrial genome of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. FEBS Lett 440(3):325-31 SGD PMID 9872396

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