The Nature and Arrangement of Pentatricopeptide Domains and the Linker Sequences Between Them.

In this study, a comprehensive bioinformatic analysis of the PPR units and the linkers that connect them was conducted. The results suggested the existence of PPR repeats of various formats, as well as smaller, PPR-unrelated repeats. Besides their length, these repeats differed in amino acid arrangements and location of key amino acids. These findings provide a broader and unified perspective of the pentatricopeptide family while raising provocative questions about the assembly and evolution of these domains. PMID: 32180683 [PubMed]
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