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SUBMITTER: Savva YA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4017936 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Savva Yiannis A YA Jepson James E C JE Sahin Asli A Sugden Arthur U AU Dorsky Jacquelyn S JS Alpert Lauren L Lawrence Charles C Reenan Robert A RA
Nature communications 20120424
Auto-regulatory feedback loops are a common molecular strategy used to optimize protein function. In Drosophila, many messenger RNAs involved in neuro-transmission are re-coded at the RNA level by the RNA-editing enzyme, dADAR, leading to the incorporation of amino acids that are not directly encoded by the genome. dADAR also re-codes its own transcript, but the consequences of this auto-regulation in vivo are unclear. Here we show that hard-wiring or abolishing endogenous dADAR auto-regulation ...[more]