Maturase K
| 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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| MatK/TrnK, N-terminal (inactive RT) | |||||||||
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| Identifiers | |||||||||
| Symbol | MatK_N | ||||||||
| Pfam | PF01824 | ||||||||
| InterPro | IPR024942 | ||||||||
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Maturase K (matK) is a plant plastidial gene. 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. Amongst other maturases, this protein retains only a well conserved domain X and remnants of a reverse transcriptase domain.
Universal matK primers can be used for DNA barcoding of angiosperms.