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Correction of mutations within the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator by site-directed RNA editing.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 5 Nov 2013
Montiel-Gonzalez Maria Fernanda, Vallecillo-Viejo Isabel, Yudowski Guillermo A, Rosenthal Joshua J C
Abstract excerpt
Adenosine deaminases that act on RNA are a conserved family of enzymes that catalyze a natural process of site-directed mutagenesis. Biochemically, they convert adenosine to inosine, a nucleotide that is read as guanosine during translation; thus when editing occurs in mRNAs, codons can be recoded and the changes can alter protein function. By removing the endogenous targeting domains from human adenosine...
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