Subject: Re: Plant mitochondrial genetic code?

From: [email-masked] (Claudia Sutton)
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 1996 12:37:43 +0100

In article <[email-masked]>,
[email-masked] (Tom Bickle) wrote:

> Hi there,
> 
> Does anyone know whether the plant mitochondrial genetic code differs from
> the mammalian one? I have searched the web and only found an outdated list
> of translation tables at the GCG site.  An e-mail response would be
> appreciated as this is not a newsgroup I regularly follow.
> 
> Many thanks,
> 
> -- 
> Tom Bickle, Department of Microbiology, Biozentrum, Basel University
> Klingelbergstrasse 70, CH-4056 Basel, Switzerland.
> +4161 267 2120, Fax: +4161 267 2118  [email-masked]

In short, the code's the same.  Several years ago, there was a suggestion
by Fox and Leaver that plant mitos used CGG codon for tryp instead of
UGG.  this was due to sequences of plant mito DNA.  But plant mitos have
an RNA editing system such that certain Cs in transcripts are converted to
Us.  So the same genetic code works afterall.

Claudia
[email-masked]

who works on plant mitos