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RNA Editing

"RNA Editing" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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A process that changes the nucleotide sequence of mRNA from that of the DNA template encoding it. Some major classes of RNA editing are as follows: 1, the conversion of cytosine to uracil in mRNA; 2, the addition of variable number of guanines at pre-determined sites; and 3, the addition and deletion of uracils, templated by guide-RNAs (RNA, GUIDE).


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "RNA Editing" by people in this website by year, and whether "RNA Editing" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 32 publications over 19 distinct years, with a maximum of 5 publications in 2023
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