Establishment for the method studying mitochondrial gene using RNA editing

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25660296
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Applied molecular and cellular biology
• Research Institution: Kyushu University
• Principal Investigator: NAKAMURA Takahiro 九州大学, (連合)農学研究科(研究院), 准教授 (10464398)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: ミトコンドリア / RNA編集 / PPRタンパク質

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study has been performed to establish a novel method studying the protein function encoding in plant mitochondrial genome. To this purpose, the RNA recognition code for PPR protein was applied for the prediction to identify PPR protein genes responsible for mitochondrial RNA editing. The PPR-deficient strains contain the mitochondrial protein whose amino acid was substituted. Thus, the strains could be applied to analyze the mitochondrial responses against various stimuli including abiotic stress and hormones.

Free Research Field

植物分子生物学