Mechanistic insight into pentatricopeptide repeat proteins as sequence-specific RNA-binding proteins for organellar RNAs in plants

Plant and Cell Physiology

Volumn 53, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1171-1179

  Nakamura, Takahiro ^a   Yagi, Yusuke ^a   Kobayashi, Keiko ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chloroplast; Mitochondria; Pentatricopeptide repeat protein; PPR; RNA processing; RNA binding protein

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS PROTEIN; PENTATRICOPEPTIDE REPEAT PROTEIN, ARABIDOPSIS; PLANT RNA; RNA; RNA BINDING PROTEIN; RNA, MITOCHONDRIAL;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARABIDOPSIS; CHLOROPLAST; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MITOCHONDRION; PLANT GENE; PROTEIN MOTIF; REVIEW; RNA EDITING; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS PROTEINS; CHLOROPLASTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; MITOCHONDRIA; RNA; RNA EDITING; RNA, PLANT; RNA-BINDING PROTEINS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ARABIDOPSIS; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 84863957655     PISSN: 00320781     EISSN: 14719053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pcp/pcs069     Document Type: Review

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