Communications Biology (Sep 2022)

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

  • Mizuho Ichinose,
  • Masuyo Kawabata,
  • Yumi Akaiwa,
  • Yasuka Shimajiri,
  • Izumi Nakamura,
  • Takayuki Tamai,
  • Takahiro Nakamura,
  • Yusuke Yagi,
  • Bernard Gutmann

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-022-03927-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 5, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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DYW:KP domains, designed on proteins found in the mitochondria and chloroplasts of seedless plants, are fused to a designer RNA-binding pentatricopeptide repeat (PPR) domain to edit targeted uridine to cytidine in bacteria and human cells.