Dual discoveries in genetic processing improve accuracy of genome...

M2 Presswire;  August 8, 2003 ;     700+ words ......nucleoside inosine by a process called A-to-I RNA editing. The scientists subsequently found that...to specific genes targeted for A-to-I RNA editing. The identical presence in both species...advantage for survival. Recoding, or RNA editing, and the entire process are much like...

Tiny Molecular Change Inactivates Tumor Suppressor Gene in...

Ascribe Higher Education News Service;  January 8, 2002 ;     700+ words ......single nucleotide RNA change -- called RNA editing -- that occurs when messenger RNA is...copy of the gene was hit. The faulty RNA editing seen by Davidson could provide that...same effects can be introduced through RNA editing. The type of error that Davidson found...

The evolution of cellular computing.(Evolution: A Molecular Point of...

The Biological Bulletin;  June 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ......computation (4). We have also studied RNA editing, which is another cellular paradigm for nucleic acid computers. RNA editing, the modification of RNA sequences...example, in kinetoplastid protozoa, RNA editing by addition and deletion of literally...

A novel way of editing genetic messages.

Science News;  February 17, 1990 ;     652 words ......certain mRNA molecules--a process called RNA editing -- has left scientists searching for...these RNA molecules guide RNA (gRNA). RNA editing is a novel mechanism of information...their search for missing template. In RNA editing, wherever a guanine or an adenine occurs...

Compugen Finds Thousands of A-to-I RNA Editing Sites.

Genomics and Proteomics;  September 1, 2004 ;     442 words ......genetic instructions in the DNA. In A-to-I RNA editing, adenosine deaminases acting on RNA...The biological phenomenon known as RNA editing is similar to alternative splicing...effects the diversity of the proteome, RNA editing influences the diversity of the proteome...

Ecotype Allelic Variation in C-to-U Editing Extent of a Mitochondrial...

Plant Physiology;  December 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ...In higher plants, RNA editing is a posttranscriptional process...to U in organelle mRNAs. Although RNA editing in mitochondria occurs much more...features of cis-sequences necessary for RNA editing to occur, but have failed to identify...

Peering Into the Shadow World of RNA: Crosstalk Between Different Forms of...

Ascribe Higher Education News Service;  December 4, 2006 ;     700+ words ......research has for many years explored RNA editing mechanisms. In particular, she has studied...are themselves subject to specific RNA editing, the result of which is to suppress...are discovering other links between RNA editing and the activities of different forms...

Interdisciplinary Research

The Scientist;  December 5, 2005 ;     299 words ......hexakisphosphate is bound in the ADAR2 core and required for RNA editing," Science, 309:1534-9, Sept. 2, 2005. This work reports the fascinating but surprising finding that the RNA editing enzyme ADAR2 requires soluble inositol hexakisphosphate binding...

Study provides insights into impact of RNA editing.(ribonucleic acid)

Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA);  February 23, 2007 ;     700+ words ......showed that a breakdown in this process of RNA editing leads to high levels of uric acid _ a...University biologist Stefan Maas, an expert in RNA editing who was not involved with the research. RNA editing is thought to be just one way that humans...

Cis editing in Trypanosoma brucei brucei as a model for understanding...

The Biological Bulletin;  October 1, 2004 ;     292 words ...RNA editing in trypanosomes is a unique post-transcriptional process which is responsible...better define the structural and biochemical properties of a gRNA in RNA editing and to address the origins of these unique molecules. Daniel E. Golden...

New Study Expands Understanding of Role of RNA Editing in Gene Control.

Ascribe Higher Education News Service;  December 23, 2005 ;     700+ words ......out the details of a process called RNA editing, in which messenger RNA sequence is...are themselves subject to specific RNA editing, the result of which is to suppress...Nishikura's team demonstrated that two RNA editing enzymes known as ADAR1 and ADAR2, long...

What separates us from the worms.(impact of ribonucleic acid processing on...

Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA);  February 23, 2007 ;     700+ words ......showed that a breakdown in this process of RNA editing leads to high levels of uric acid...University biologist Stefan Maas, an expert in RNA editing who was not involved with the research. RNA editing is thought to be just one way that humans...

Pigment Deficiency in Nightshade/Tobacco Cybrids Is Caused by the Failure...

Plant Cell;  June 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......develops as a result of a defect in RNA editing of a tobacco-specific editing site in...transcript. A plastome-wide analysis of RNA editing in these cytoplasmic hybrids and in...sites, suggesting that differences in RNA editing patterns in general contribute to the...

Need to Analyse Voluminous Data Opens up Exciting Opportunities for...

PR Newswire Europe;  November 21, 2005 ;     700+ words ......systematic identification of adenosine to inosine (A to I) RNA editing sites in the human transcriptome has increased the number...alternative splicing, naturally occurring sense/antisense pairs, and RNA editing. Solexa, UK, is working towards the commercialisation of a...

Molecular biology of the plant mitochondrion

Critical Reviews in Plant Sciences;  January 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ......processing steps during maturation, including RNA editing, cis- and trans-intron splicing and...mitochondria, gene expression, RNA processing, RNA editing. I. THE MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME HAS UNIQUE...aspects of mitochondrial biology, such as RNA editing, which was previously reviewed in ...