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SUBMITTER: Pinker F
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4631585 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Acta crystallographica. Section F, Structural biology communications 20151023 Pt 11
RNase P activity is ubiquitous and involves the 5' maturation of precursor tRNAs. For a long time, it was thought that all RNases P were ribonucleoproteic enzymes. However, the characterization of RNase P in human mitochondria and in plants revealed a novel kind of RNase P composed of protein only, called PRORP for `proteinaceous RNase P'. Whereas in human mitochondria PRORP has two partners that are required for RNase P activity, PRORP proteins are active as single-subunit enzymes in plants. Th ...[more]