RNA editing of tobacco petB mRNAs occurs both in chloroplasts and non-photosynthetic proplastids
- 1 October 1994
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Plant Molecular Biology
- Vol. 26 (1) , 509-513
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00039562
Abstract
We found an RNA editing site in the protein coding region of tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) petB transcripts. This editing (CCA to CUA) leads to an amino acid conversion from proline to leucine. It is observed not only in chloroplasts isolated from tobacco leaves but also in non-photosynthetic proplastids isolated from a tobacco cell culture. Also unspliced pre-mRNA shows complete editing. The editing site is the same as that recently observed in the maize petB transcripts which restores the codon for a highly conserved leucine residue, suggesting that RNA editing at this site is critical for the protein (cytochrome b6) function.Keywords
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