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The majority of transcripts in the squid nervous system are extensively recoded by A-to-I RNA editing.

Shahar Alon, Sandra C Garrett, Erez Y Levanon, Sara Olson, Brenton R Graveley, Joshua J C Rosenthal, Eli Eisenberg

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Article in eLife, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 103 papers.

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7 authors at 4 institutions in 3 countries.

Shahar AlonGeorge S Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Department of Neurobiology, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Sandra C GarrettDepartment of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Institute for Systems Genomics, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, United States.
Erez Y LevanonMina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel.
Sara OlsonDepartment of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Institute for Systems Genomics, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, United States.
Brenton R GraveleyDepartment of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Institute for Systems Genomics, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, United States.
Joshua J C RosenthalInstitute of Neurobiology, University of Puerto Rico Medical Sciences Campus, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Eli EisenbergSagol School of Neuroscience, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.
UConn Health · USTel Aviv University · ILBar-Ilan University · ILUniversity of Puerto Rico, Medical Sciences Campus · PR

Funding

Trans-Splicing in DrosophilaR01GM095296 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT SCH OF MED/DNT · PI GRAVELEY, BRENTON R. · 2011 to 2014
$1.6M
Regulation of the Na/K Pump by RNA EditingR01NS064259 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO MED SCIENCES · PI ROSENTHAL, JOSHUA J.C. · 2010 to 2014
$1.5M
European Research Council 311257NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM095296NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS064259
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

RNA editing by adenosine deamination alters genetic information from the genomic blueprint. When it recodes mRNAs, it gives organisms the option to express diverse, functionally distinct, protein isoforms. All eumetazoans, from cnidarians to humans, express RNA editing enzymes. However, transcriptome-wide screens have only uncovered about 25 transcripts harboring conserved recoding RNA editing sites in mammals and several hundred recoding sites in Drosophila. These studies on few established models have led to the general assumption that recoding by RNA editing is extremely rare. Here we employ a novel bioinformatic approach with extensive validation to show that the squid Doryteuthis pealeii recodes proteins by RNA editing to an unprecedented extent. We identify 57,108 recoding sites in the nervous system, affecting the majority of the proteins studied. Recoding is tissue-dependent, and enriched in genes with neuronal and cytoskeletal functions, suggesting it plays an important role in brain physiology.

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AdenosineAmino AcidsAnimalsBase SequenceDecapodiformesGenomeInosineMolecular Sequence DataNervous SystemRNA EditingRNA, MessengerAdenosineAmino AcidsInosineRNA, MessengerDoryteuthis pealeiievolutionary biologygenomicsneurosciencerecodingRNA editing

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PMID25569156
PMCPMC4384741
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