Plant organellar RNA maturation

I Small, J Melonek, AV Bohne, J Nickelsen… - The Plant …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Plant organellar RNA metabolism is run by a multitude of nucleus-encoded RNA-binding
proteins (RBPs) that control RNA stability, processing, and degradation. In chloroplasts and …

Chloroplast gene expression: Recent advances and perspectives

Y Zhang, L Tian, C Lu - Plant Communications, 2023 - cell.com
Chloroplasts evolved from an ancient cyanobacterial endosymbiont more than 1.5 billion
years ago. During subsequent coevolution with the nuclear genome, the chloroplast …

Maize PPR-E proteins mediate RNA C-to-U editing in mitochondria by recruiting the trans deaminase PCW1

Y Wang, H Li, ZQ Huang, B Ma, YZ Yang, ZH Xiu… - The Plant …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Abstract RNA C-to-U editing in organelles is essential for plant growth and development;
however, the underlying mechanism is not fully understood. Here, we report that …

The genetic basis of cytoplasmic male sterility and fertility restoration in wheat

J Melonek, J Duarte, J Martin, L Beuf… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Hybrid wheat varieties give higher yields than conventional lines but are difficult to produce
due to a lack of effective control of male fertility in breeding lines. One promising system …

C-to-U and U-to-C: RNA editing in plant organelles and beyond

V Knoop - Journal of Experimental Botany, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The genomes in the two energy-converting organelles of plant cells, chloroplasts and
mitochondria, contain numerous 'errors' that are corrected at the level of RNA transcript …

DYW domain structures imply an unusual regulation principle in plant organellar RNA editing catalysis

M Takenaka, S Takenaka, T Barthel, B Frink, S Haag… - Nature Catalysis, 2021 - nature.com
RNA editosomes selectively deaminate cytidines to uridines in plant organellar transcripts—
mostly to restore protein functionality and consequently facilitate mitochondrial and …

U-to-C RNA editing by synthetic PPR-DYW proteins in bacteria and human culture cells

M Ichinose, M Kawabata, Y Akaiwa, Y Shimajiri… - Communications …, 2022 - nature.com
Programmable RNA editing offers significant therapeutic potential for a wide range of
genetic diseases. Currently, several deaminase enzymes, including ADAR and APOBEC …

Insights into complex I assembly: function of NDUFAF1 and a link with cardiolipin remodeling

J Schiller, E Laube, I Wittig, W Kühlbrandt, J Vonck… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Respiratory complex I is a~ 1-MDa proton pump in mitochondria. Its structure has been
revealed in great detail, but the structural basis of its assembly, in humans involving at least …

The hornworts: morphology, evolution and development

E Frangedakis, M Shimamura, JC Villarreal… - New …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Extant land plants consist of two deeply divergent groups, tracheophytes and bryophytes,
which shared a common ancestor some 500 million years ago. While information about …

Plant mitochondrial RNA editing factors can perform targeted C-to-U editing of nuclear transcripts in human cells

E Lesch, MT Schilling, S Brenner, Y Yang… - Nucleic Acids …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
RNA editing processes are strikingly different in animals and plants. Up to thousands of
specific cytidines are converted into uridines in plant chloroplasts and mitochondria whereas …