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A ribonuclease III domain protein functions in group II intron splicing in maize chloroplasts.
The Plant cell - 1 Aug 2007
Watkins Kenneth P, Kroeger Tiffany S, Cooke Amy M, Williams-Carrier Rosalind E, Friso Giulia, Belcher Susan E, van Wijk Klaas J, Barkan Alice
Abstract excerpt
Chloroplast genomes in land plants harbor approximately 20 group II introns. Genetic approaches have identified proteins involved in the splicing of many of these introns, but the proteins identified to date cannot account for the large size of intron ribonucleoprotein complexes and are not sufficient to reconstitute splicing in vitro. Here, we describe an additional protein that promotes chloroplast group II...
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