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A Pentatricopeptide Repeat Protein in the Plasmodium apicoplast is essential and shows sequence-specific RNA binding
Joanna L. Hicks, Imen Lassadi, Emma Carpenter…·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.
DOI 10.1101/388728