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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Volume 107, Issue 7, Pages 3245-3250Publisher
NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0909400107
Keywords
chloroplast; RNA-binding protein; splicing; RNA-processing; plant
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- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
- Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD)
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [22570050] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Bacterial group II introns encode maturase proteins required for splicing. In organelles of photosynthetic land plants, most of the group II introns have lost the reading frames for maturases. Here, we show that the plastidial maturase MatK not only interacts with its encoding intron within trnK-UUU, but also with six additional group II introns, all belonging to intron subclass IIA. Mapping analyses of RNA binding sites revealed MatK to recognize multiple regions within the trnK intron. Organellar group II introns are considered to be the ancestors of nuclear spliceosomal introns. That MatK associates with multiple intron ligands makes it an attractive model for an early trans-acting nuclear splicing activity.
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