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A DEAD box protein is required for formation of a hidden break in Arabidopsis chloroplast 23S rRNA.
The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology - 1 Sept 2010
Nishimura Kenji, Ashida Hiroki, Ogawa Taro, Yokota Akiho
Abstract excerpt
In plant chloroplasts, the ribosomal RNA (rRNA) of the large subunit of the ribosome undergoes post-maturation fragmentation processing. This processing consists of site-specific cleavage that generates gapped, discontinuous rRNA molecules. However, the molecular mechanism underlying introduction of the gap structure (the 'hidden break') is poorly understood. Here, we found that the DEAD box protein RH39 plays a...
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