A pentatricopeptide repeat protein is essential for RNA editing in chloroplasts

Nature

Volumn 433, Issue 7023, 2005, Pages 326-330

  Kotera, Eml ^a   Tasaka, Masao ^a   Shikanai, Teshiharu ^a,b  

^a NARA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACIDS; GENES; PLANTS (BOTANY); RESTORATION;

GENETIC APPROACH; NUCLEOTIDES; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RNA MATURATION;

RNA;

CYTIDINE DERIVATIVE; NUCLEOTIDE DERIVATIVE; PENTAPEPTIDE; PROTEIN; URIDINE DERIVATIVE;

PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CHLOROPLAST; GENE DELETION; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HIGHER PLANT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN RNA BINDING; RNA EDITING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; CHLOROPHYLL; CHLOROPLASTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, AMINO ACID; RNA EDITING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EMBRYOPHYTA; INSERTION SEQUENCES;

EID: 12744253474     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature03229     Document Type: Article

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