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SUBMITTER: Rodriguez J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3409466 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Rodriguez Joseph J Menet Jerome S JS Rosbash Michael M
Molecular cell 20120531 1
The RNA editing enzyme ADAR chemically modifies adenosine (A) to inosine (I), which is interpreted by the ribosome as a guanosine. Here we assess cotranscriptional A-to-I editing in Drosophila by isolating nascent RNA from adult fly heads and subjecting samples to high throughput sequencing. There are a large number of edited sites within nascent exons. Nascent RNA from an ADAR-null strain was also sequenced, indicating that almost all A-to-I events require ADAR. Moreover, mRNA editing levels co ...[more]