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Article Dans Une Revue Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: RNA Année : 2011

Organellar RNA editing

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RNA editing is a term used for a number of mechanistically different processes that alter the nucleotide sequence of RNA molecules to differ from the gene sequence. RNA editing occurs in a wide variety of organisms and is particularly frequent in organelle transcripts of eukaryotes. The discontiguous phylogenetic distribution of mRNA editing, the mechanistic differences observed in different organisms, and the nonhomologous editing machinery described in different taxonomic groups all suggest that RNA editing has appeared independently several times. This raises questions about the selection pressures acting to maintain editing that are yet to be completely resolved. Editing tends to be frequent in organisms with atypical organelle genomes and acts to correct the effect of DNA mutations that would otherwise compromise the synthesis of functional proteins. Additional functions of editing in generating protein diversity or regulating gene expression have been proposed but so far lack widespread experimental evidence, at least in organelles. (C) 2011 JohnWiley & Sons, Ltd. WIREs RNA 2011 2 493-506 DOI:10.1002/wrna.72

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hal-02645431 , version 1 (29-05-2020)

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Anne Laure Chateigner Boutin, Ian Small. Organellar RNA editing. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: RNA, 2011, 2 (4), pp.493 - 506. ⟨10.1002/wrna.72⟩. ⟨hal-02645431⟩

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