PLMItRNA

http://bighost.area.ba.cnr.it/PLMItRNA/

Guglielmo Rainaldi¹, Mariateresa Volpicella¹, Flavio Licciulli², Sabino Liuni², Raffaele Gallerani¹, Luigi Ruggiero Ceci²

¹Dipartimento di Biochimica e Biologia Molecolare, Università di Bari, Via Amendola 165/A, 70126 Bari, Italy
²Centro di Studio sui Mitocondri e Metabolismo Energetico, CNR, Via Amendola 165/A, 70126 Bari, Italy

Contact luigi.ceci@area.ba.cnr.it

Database Description

PLMItRNA is a database developed to facilitate retrieval of information on the distribution of tRNA molecules and genes in mitochondria of green plants (higher plants and green algae) and Cryptophyta, Rhodophyta and Stramenopiles algae. Currently PLMItRNA contains 615 entries for 581 genes and 34 tRNA sequences identified among 27 higher plants, ten green algae, one Cryptophyta, four red algae (Rhodophyta) and two Stramenopiles. Last updating has been realised in July 2002, by SRS and FastA analysis of the EMBL database [G. Rainaldi et al., 2003 Database Issue of Nucleic Acids Research]. A complete description of the database can also be found at the PLMItRNA site: http://bighost.area.ba .cnr.it/PLMItRNA/

Recent Developments

A table of promoter sequences identified, or deduced from sequence analysis, for tRNA genes in the mitochondrial genomes of Angiospermae (Flowering plants) is available in the PLMItRNA database.

REFERENCES

1. Damiano, F., Gallerani, R., Liuni, S., Licciulli, F. and Ceci, L.R. (2001) PLMItRNA, a database for mitochondrial tRNA genes and tRNAs in photosynthetic eukaryotes. Nucleic Acids Res., 29, 167-168.
2. Knoop, V. and Brennicke, A. (2002) Molecular Biology of the Plant Mitochondrion. Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences, 21: 111-126.