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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MatK/TrnK, N-terminal (inactive RT) | |||||||||
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Symbol | MatK_N | ||||||||
Pfam | PF01824 | ||||||||
InterPro | IPR024942 | ||||||||
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Universal matK primers can be used for DNA barcoding of angiosperms.[4]