Learning How Genetic Typos Escape Cells’ Editors
It’s pretty rare to find a typo in a book thanks to the work of eagle-eyed editors. When our cells make the messenger RNA molecules that help turn DNA’s genetic instructions into hard-working proteins, those RNA molecules also go through an editing process to correct any errors. Darren Boydston, a graduate student in the Intramural Research Program at the National Institutes of Health, is studying two proteins that help a particular RNA editor in our cells do its job. By providing insights into how those proteins work, his experiments could help us better understand the many genetic diseases caused by RNA typos that sneak past the editing process.
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