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A pentatricopeptide repeat protein is essential for RNA editing in chloroplasts.
Nature - 20 Jan 2005
Kotera Emi, Tasaka Masao, Shikanai Toshiharu
Abstract excerpt
RNA editing is a process of RNA maturation involved in the insertion, deletion or modification of nucleotides. In organellar transcripts of higher plants, specific cytidine residues are converted into uridine residues. In many cases, editing results in the restoration of conserved amino acid residues, a process that is essential for protein function in plastids. Despite the technical breakthrough in establishing...
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