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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 conserved, the tobacco psbF gene was modified to match the corresponding spinach sequence. The endogenous tobacco gene was...
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