Introduction of a heterologous editing site into the tobacco plastid genome: the lack of RNA editing leads to a mutant phenotype.

doi:10.1002/j.1460-2075.1994.tb06784.x

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Introduction of a heterologous editing site into the tobacco plastid genome: the lack of RNA editing leads to a mutant phenotype.

The EMBO journal - 3 Oct 1994

Bock R, Kössel H, Maliga P

Abstract excerpt

The psbF mRNA is edited in spinach plastids by a C to U conversion, changing a serine to a conserved phenylalanine codon. In tobacco at this position a phenylalanine codon is present at the DNA level, and the psbF mRNA here is not edited. To test if the psbF editing capacity is evolutionarily con...

Topics

Amino Acid Sequence
Base Sequence
Biological Evolution
Cytochrome b Group
Molecular Sequence Data
Mutation
Phenotype
Plant Proteins
Plants, Toxic
Plastids
Proteins
Protozoan Proteins
RNA Editing
Spinacia oleracea
Nicotiana

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