Abstract
RNA editing in plant mitochondria alters more than 400 cytidines to uridines in flowering plants. In other plants such as ferns and mosses, the reverse reaction is observed at almost equal frequency. In the last few years, the development of transfection systems with isolated mitochondria and of in vitro systems with mitochondrial extracts has considerably improved our understanding of the parameters of site recognition. However, the biochemistry and the enzymes involved are still open questions. We here summarize our present knowledge of RNA editing as an essential part of RNA maturation in flowering plant mitochondria.
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Takenaka, M., van der Merwe, J.A., Verbitskiy, D., Neuwirt, J., Zehrmann, A., Brennicke, A. (2008). RNA Editing in Plant Mitochondria. In: Göringer, H.U. (eds) RNA Editing. Nucleic Acids and Molecular Biology, vol 20. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73787-2_5
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