Article
Pentatricopeptide repeat proteins constrain genome evolution in chloroplasts.
Molecular biology and evolution - 1 Jul 2011
Hayes Michael L, Mulligan R Michael
Abstract excerpt
Higher plants encode hundreds of pentatricopeptide repeat proteins (PPRs) that are involved in several types of RNA processing reactions. Most PPR genes are predicted to be targeted to chloroplasts or mitochondria, and many are known to affect organellar gene expression. In some cases, RNA binding has been directly demonstrated, and the sequences of the cis-elements are known. In this work, we demonstrate that...
Topics
- Base Sequence
- Chloroplasts
- Evolution, Molecular
- Genome, Plant
- Magnoliopsida
- Membrane Proteins
- Mitochondrial Proteins
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation
- Phylogeny
- Plant Proteins
- Repetitive Sequences, Nucleic Acid
- Sequence Alignment
- Transcription Factors