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ArticleEMBO reports2006

Maintenance of plastid RNA editing activities independently of their target sites.

Michael Tillich, Peter Poltnigg, Sergei Kushnir, Christian Schmitz-Linneweber

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Article in EMBO reports, 2006. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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10 citing papers in PubMed.

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  8. Post-transcriptional control of chloroplast gene expression.Gene regulation and systems biology · 2009
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4 authors.

Michael TillichCell Biology, Philipps-University Marburg, Karl-von-Frisch-Strasse, 35032 Marburg, Germany.
Peter Poltnigg
Sergei Kushnir
Christian Schmitz-Linneweber

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

RNA editing in plant organelles is mediated by site-specific, nuclear-encoded factors. Previous data suggested that the maintenance of these factors depends on the presence of their rapidly evolving cognate sites. The surprising ability of allotetraploid Nicotiana tabacum (tobacco) to edit a foreign site in the chloroplast ndhA messenger RNA was thought to be inherited from its diploid male ancestor, Nicotiana tomentosiformis. Here, we show that the same ndhA editing activity is also present in Nicotiana sylvestris, which is the female diploid progenitor of tobacco and which lacks the ndhA site. Hence, heterologous editing is not simply a result of tobacco's allopolyploid genome organization. Analyses of other editing sites after sexual or somatic transfer between land plants showed that heterologous editing occurs at a surprisingly high frequency. This suggests that the corresponding editing activities are conserved despite the absence of their target sites, potentially because they serve other functions in the plant cell.

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RNA EditingBase SequenceNicotianaPlant ProteinsPlastidsRNA, PlantPlant ProteinsRNA, Plant

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PMID16415790
PMCPMC1456890

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