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Arabidopsis orthologs of maize chloroplast splicing factors promote splicing of orthologous and species-specific group II introns.
Plant physiology - 1 Dec 2006
Asakura Yukari, Barkan Alice
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Chloroplast genomes in plants and green algae contain numerous group II introns, large ribozymes that splice via the same chemical steps as spliceosome-mediated splicing in the nucleus. Most chloroplast group II introns are degenerate, requiring interaction with nucleus-encoded proteins to splice in vivo. Genetic approaches in maize (Zea mays) and Chlamydomonas reinhardtii have elucidated distinct sets of...
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