Maturase K
Plant plastidial gene
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Maturase K (matK) is a plant plastidial gene.[1] The protein it encodes is an organelle intron maturase, a protein that splices Group II introns. It is essential for in vivo splicing of Group II introns.[2] Amongst other maturases, this protein retains only a well conserved domain X and remnants of a reverse transcriptase domain.[3]
| Maturase K | |||||||
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| Organism | |||||||
| Symbol | matK | ||||||
| Alt. symbols | ycf14 | ||||||
| Entrez | 844797 | ||||||
| RefSeq (mRNA) | NP_051040.2 | ||||||
| UniProt | P56784 | ||||||
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Universal matK primers can be used for DNA barcoding of angiosperms.[4]
See also
- LtrA, an open reading frame found in the Lactococcus lactis group II introns LtrB. It is an intron-encoded protein, with three subdomains, one of which is a reverse-transcriptase/maturase.
