scholarly journals RNA editing site recognition in higher plant mitochondria

1999 ◽  
Vol 90 (3) ◽  
pp. 338-344 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. M. Mulligan
2006 ◽  
Vol 50 (6) ◽  
pp. 405-416 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Choury ◽  
Alejandro Araya

2001 ◽  
Vol 21 (20) ◽  
pp. 6731-6737 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean-Claude Farré ◽  
Gabriel Leon ◽  
Xavier Jordana ◽  
Alejandro Araya

ABSTRACT RNA editing in higher plant mitochondria modifies mRNA sequences by means of C-to-U conversions at highly specific sites. To determine thecis elements involved in recognition of an editing site in plant mitochondria, deletion and site-directed mutation constructs containing the cognate cox II mitochondrial gene were introduced into purified mitochondria by electroporation. The RNA editing status was analyzed for precursor and spliced transcripts from the test construct. We found that only a restricted number of nucleotides in the vicinity of the target C residue were necessary for recognition by the editing machinery and that the nearest neighbor 3′ residues were crucial for the editing process. We provide evidence that two functionally distinguishable sequences can be defined: the 16-nucleotide 5′ region, which can be replaced with the same region from another editing site, and a 6-nucleotide 3′ region specific to the editing site. The latter region may play a role in positioning the actual editing residue.


2002 ◽  
Vol 22 (19) ◽  
pp. 6726-6734 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tetsuya Miyamoto ◽  
Junichi Obokata ◽  
Masahiro Sugiura

ABSTRACT RNA editing in higher-plant chloroplasts involves C-to-U conversions at specific sites. Although in vivo analyses have been performed, little is known about the biochemical aspects of chloroplast editing reactions. Here we improved our original in vitro system and devised a procedure for preparing active chloroplast extracts not only from tobacco plants but also from pea plants. Using our tobacco in vitro system, cis-acting elements were defined for psbE and petB mRNAs. Distinct proteins were found to bind specifically to each cis-element, a 56-kDa protein to the psbE site and a 70-kDa species to the petB site. Pea chloroplasts lack the corresponding editing site in psbE since T is already present in the DNA. Parallel in vitro analyses with tobacco and pea extracts revealed that the pea plant has no editing activity for psbE mRNAs and lacks the 56-kDa protein, whereas petB mRNAs are edited and the 70-kDa protein is also present. Therefore, coevolution of an editing site and its cognate trans-factor was demonstrated biochemically in psbE mRNA editing between tobacco and pea plants.


1990 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 2428-2431
Author(s):  
W Schuster ◽  
R Hiesel ◽  
B Wissinger ◽  
A Brennicke

RNA editing in the cytochrome b locus of Oenothera berteriana mitochondria modified a number of cytidine nucleotides to uridines, mostly altering codon identities. One nucleotide alteration involved a reverse modification changing a genomic thymidine to a cytidine in the cDNA sequence. The enzymatic editing activity in higher-plant mitochondria thus appears to be able to catalyze the interconversion of pyrimidines in both directions at specific nucleotides in the mRNA template.


Biochimie ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 77 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 79-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. Yu ◽  
T. Fester ◽  
H. Bock ◽  
W. Schuster

1990 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 2428-2431 ◽  
Author(s):  
W Schuster ◽  
R Hiesel ◽  
B Wissinger ◽  
A Brennicke

RNA editing in the cytochrome b locus of Oenothera berteriana mitochondria modified a number of cytidine nucleotides to uridines, mostly altering codon identities. One nucleotide alteration involved a reverse modification changing a genomic thymidine to a cytidine in the cDNA sequence. The enzymatic editing activity in higher-plant mitochondria thus appears to be able to catalyze the interconversion of pyrimidines in both directions at specific nucleotides in the mRNA template.


2010 ◽  
pp. 157-175
Author(s):  
Anika Bruhs ◽  
Frank Kempken

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