Entries from 2013-07-01 to 1 month

PPR

Dahan J & Mireau H 2013 The Rf and Rf-like PPR in higher plants, a fast-evolving subclass of PPR genes. RNA Biol 10:1469-1476. PPR binding could induce local RNA structure reorganization to make otherwise hidden binding sites more accessib…

PPR

Yagi Y, Hayashi S, Kobayashi K, Hirayama T & Nakamura T 2013 Elucidation of the RNA recognition code for pentatricopeptide repeat proteins involved in organelle RNA editing in plants. PLoS ONE 8:e57286. the PPR tract recognized the upstrea…

directional epistasis

Schenk MF, Szendro IG, Salverda MLM, Krug J & de Visser JAGM 2013 Patterns of epistasis between beneficial mutations in an antibiotic resistance gene. Mol Biol Evol 30:1779-1787. it has been suggested that epistasis is stronger among mutat…