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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
7
pubmed:dateCreated
2002-2-11
pubmed:abstractText
RNA editing in plant organelles post-transcriptionally alters single nucleotides by C-to-U or U-to-C conversions at highly specific sites. Plant editing is generally viewed as a repair mechanism acting at the transcript level by restoring conserved amino acid residues. Here we report that an editing reaction within the ndhB transcript (encoding a plastid NAD(P)H dehydrogenase subunit) is strictly dependent on active photosynthesis. Employing non-photosynthetic mutants, we show that in the absence of photosynthesis, the site remains unedited, whereas it is fully edited when the photosynthetic apparatus is intact. Moreover, the site also remains unedited during the etiolated stage of seedling development, suggesting that two different NdhB proteins are synthesized under photosynthetic versus non-photosynthetic conditions. This is the first case where RNA editing in plants appears to regulate gene expression qualitatively, resulting in the production of two different proteins from one and the same gene in a developmental stage-dependent manner.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Feb
pubmed:issn
0021-9258
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
15
pubmed:volume
277
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
5570-4
pubmed:dateRevised
2008-11-21
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:11734554-Base Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:11734554-Binding Sites, pubmed-meshheading:11734554-DNA, Complementary, pubmed-meshheading:11734554-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:11734554-Mutation, pubmed-meshheading:11734554-NADPH Dehydrogenase, pubmed-meshheading:11734554-Nucleic Acids, pubmed-meshheading:11734554-Photosynthesis, pubmed-meshheading:11734554-Plant Physiological Phenomena, pubmed-meshheading:11734554-Plants, Genetically Modified, pubmed-meshheading:11734554-Plastids, pubmed-meshheading:11734554-Polymerase Chain Reaction, pubmed-meshheading:11734554-Protein Binding, pubmed-meshheading:11734554-Protein Structure, Tertiary, pubmed-meshheading:11734554-RNA, pubmed-meshheading:11734554-RNA Editing, pubmed-meshheading:11734554-Sequence Analysis, DNA, pubmed-meshheading:11734554-Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid, pubmed-meshheading:11734554-Tobacco
pubmed:year
2002
pubmed:articleTitle
The amino acid sequence of a plastid protein is developmentally regulated by RNA editing.
pubmed:affiliation
Institut für Biologie III, Universität Freiburg, Schänzlestrasse 1, D-79104 Freiburg, Germany.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't