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The PPR-SMR protein PPR53 enhances the stability and translation of specific chloroplast RNAs in maize.
The Plant journal : for cell and molecular biology - 1 Mar 2016
Zoschke Reimo, Watkins Kenneth P, Miranda Rafael G, Barkan Alice
Abstract excerpt
Pentatricopeptide repeat (PPR) proteins are helical repeat proteins that bind RNA and influence gene expression in mitochondria and chloroplasts. Several PPR proteins in plants harbor a carboxy-terminal small-MutS-related (SMR) domain, but the functions of the SMR appendage are unknown. To address this issue, we studied a maize PPR-SMR protein denoted PPR53 (GRMZM2G438524), which is orthologous to the Arabidopsis...
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