The evolution and adaptation of A-to-I RNA editing

AL Yablonovitch, P Deng, D Jacobson, JB Li - PLoS genetics, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Adenosine-to-inosine (A-to-I) RNA editing is an important post-transcriptional modification
that affects the information encoded from DNA to RNA to protein. RNA editing can generate …

[HTML][HTML] The many roles of A-to-I RNA editing in animals: functional or adaptive?

D Zhan, C Zheng, W Cai, H Li, Y Duan - Frontiers in Bioscience …, 2023 - imrpress.com
Metazoan adenosine-to-inosine (A-to-I) RNA editing is a highly conserved mechanism that
diversifies the transcriptome by post-transcriptionally converting adenosine to inosine …

Experimental evidence for the functional importance and adaptive advantage of A-to-I RNA editing in fungi

K Xin, Y Zhang, L Fan, Z Qi, C Feng… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Adenosine-to-inosine (A-to-I) editing is the most prevalent type of RNA editing in animals,
and it occurs in fungi specifically during sexual reproduction. However, it is debatable …

Adaptation of A-to-I RNA editing in bacteria, fungi, and animals

Y Duan, H Li, W Cai - Frontiers in Microbiology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Adenosine-to-inosine (A-to-I) RNA editing is a prevalent type of RNA modification in all
domains of lives ranging from bacteria (Liao et al., 2023), fungi (Liu et al., 2017), to …

Chloroplast C-to-U RNA editing in vascular plants is adaptive due to its restorative effect: testing the restorative hypothesis

Y Duan, W Cai, H Li - RNA, 2023 - rnajournal.cshlp.org
The adaptiveness of nonsynonymous RNA editing (recoding) could be conferred by the
flexibility of the temporal-spatially controllable proteomic diversity, or by its restorative effect …

Genome-wide analysis on driver and passenger RNA editing sites suggests an underestimation of adaptive signals in insects

Y Zhang, Y Duan - Genes, 2023 - mdpi.com
Adenosine-to-inosine (A-to-I) RNA editing leads to a similar effect to A-to-G mutations. RNA
editing provides a temporo-spatial flexibility for organisms. Nonsynonymous (Nonsyn) RNA …

The landscape of A-to-I RNA editome is shaped by both positive and purifying selection

Y Yu, H Zhou, Y Kong, B Pan, L Chen, H Wang… - PLoS …, 2016 - journals.plos.org
The hydrolytic deamination of adenosine to inosine (A-to-I editing) in precursor mRNA
induces variable gene products at the post-transcription level. How and to what extent A-to-I …

Identification and interpretation of A-to-I RNA editing events in insect transcriptomes

Y Xu, J Liu, T Zhao, F Song, L Tian, W Cai, H Li… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Adenosine-to-inosine (A-to-I) RNA editing is the most prevalent RNA modification in the
nervous systems of metazoans. To study the biological significance of RNA editing, we first …

Evidence that alternative transcriptional initiation is largely nonadaptive

C Xu, JK Park, J Zhang - PLoS biology, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Alternative transcriptional initiation (ATI) refers to the frequent observation that one gene has
multiple transcription start sites (TSSs). Although this phenomenon is thought to be adaptive …

Adaptive proteome diversification by nonsynonymous A-to-I RNA editing in coleoid cephalopods

Y Shoshan, N Liscovitch-Brauer… - Molecular Biology …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
RNA editing by the ADAR enzymes converts selected adenosines into inosines, biological
mimics for guanosines. By doing so, it alters protein-coding sequences, resulting in novel …