Simon Silver | Apr 14, 1991 | 2 min read
Author: SIMON SILVER Department of Microbiology & Immunology University of Illinois Chicago, p.19 Why do trypanosomes have mitochondrial genes that are only partial and need the insertion of dozens of uridine residues (copied from small guide RNAs)? Now a slime mold has a gene for the major ATP synthase a subunit that needs 54 insertions of cytidine to correct frame shifts from the missing bases. The mitochondrial genes of eucaryotic microbes are strange. R. Mahendran, M.R. Spottswood, D.L.