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The ADAR RNA editing enzyme controls neuronal excitability in Drosophila melanogaster.
Nucleic acids research - 1 Jan 2014
Li Xianghua, Overton Ian M, Baines Richard A, Keegan Liam P, O'Connell Mary A
Abstract excerpt
RNA editing by deamination of specific adenosine bases to inosines during pre-mRNA processing generates edited isoforms of proteins. Recoding RNA editing is more widespread in Drosophila than in vertebrates. Editing levels rise strongly at metamorphosis, and Adar(5G1) null mutant flies lack editing events in hundreds of CNS transcripts; mutant flies have reduced viability, severely defective locomotion and...
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