@article {427,
	title = {A protein required for RNA processing and splicing in Neurospora mitochondria is related to gene products involved in cell cycle protein phosphatase functions.},
	journal = {Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A},
	volume = {89},
	number = {5},
	year = {1992},
	month = {1992 Mar 1},
	pages = {1676-80},
	abstract = {The Neurospora crassa cyt-4 mutants have pleiotropic defects in mitochondrial RNA splicing, 5{\textquoteright} and 3{\textquoteright} end processing, and RNA turnover. Here, we show that the cyt-4+ gene encodes a 120-kDa protein with significant similarity to the SSD1/SRK1 protein of Saccharomyces cerevisiae and the DIS3 protein of Schizosaccharomyces pombe, which have been implicated in protein phosphatase functions that regulate cell cycle and mitotic chromosome segregation. The CYT-4 protein is present in mitochondria and is truncated or deficient in two cyt-4 mutants. Assuming that the CYT-4 protein functions in a manner similar to the SSD1/SRK1 and DIS3 proteins, we infer that the mitochondrial RNA splicing and processing reactions defective in the cyt-4 mutants are regulated by protein phosphorylation and that the defects in the cyt-4 mutants result from failure to normally regulate this process. Our results provide evidence that RNA splicing and processing reactions may be regulated by protein phosphorylation.},
	keywords = {Amino Acid Sequence, Base Sequence, Cell Cycle, Cloning, Molecular, DNA, Fungal, DNA, Mitochondrial, Fungal Proteins, Genes, Fungal, Mitochondrial Proteins, Molecular Sequence Data, Neurospora crassa, Phosphoprotein Phosphatases, Restriction Mapping, RNA Processing, Post-Transcriptional, RNA, Fungal, Sequence Alignment},
	issn = {0027-8424},
	author = {Turcq, B and Dobinson, K F and Serizawa, N and Lambowitz, A M}
}
