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SUBMITTER: Hammani K
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3122196 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hammani Kamel K des Francs-Small Catherine Colas CC Takenaka Mizuki M Tanz Sandra K SK Okuda Kenji K Shikanai Toshiharu T Brennicke Axel A Small Ian I
The Journal of biological chemistry 20110419 24
In plant organelles, RNA editing is a post-transcriptional mechanism that converts specific cytidines to uridines in RNA of both mitochondria and plastids, altering the information encoded by the gene. The cytidine to be edited is determined by a cis-element surrounding the editing site that is specifically recognized and bound by a trans-acting factor. All the trans-acting editing factors identified so far in plant organelles are members of a large protein family, the pentatricopeptide repeat ( ...[more]