The RNA editing pattern of cox2 mRNA is affected by point mutations in plant mitochondria.

ABSTRACT: The mitochondrial transcriptome from land plants undergoes hundreds of specific C-to-U changes by RNA editing. These events are important since most of them occur in the coding region of mRNAs. One challenging question is to understand the mechanism of recognition of a selected C residue (editing sites) on the transcript. It has been reported that a short region surrounding the target C forms the cis-recognition elements, but individual residues on it do not play similar roles for the different editing sites. Here, we studied the role of the -1 and +1 nucleotide in wheat cox2 editing site recognition using an in organello approach. We found that four different recognition patterns can be distinguished: (a) +1 dependency, (b) -1 dependency, (c) +1/-1 dependency, and (d) no dependency on nea

SUBMITTER: Castandet B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3113845 | biostudies-literature | 2011

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature