A Pentatricopeptide Repeat Protein in the Plasmodium apicoplast is essential and shows sequence-specific RNA binding
Joanna L. Hicks, Imen Lassadi, Emma Carpenter, Madeleine Eno, Alexandros Vardakis, Ross F. Waller, Christopher J. Howe, R. Ellen R. Nisbet
This study identifies and characterizes PPR1, an essential apicoplast-targeted PPR protein in Plasmodium that binds specific RNA sequences and protects transcripts from degradation.
bioRxiv · Sep 19, 2018 · PreprintMicrobiology