TRANSLATION REGULATION OF INTRON-CONTAINING GENES IN CHLOROPLASTS

Abstract

The paper provides a short description of the originally developed algorithm for searching of the conservative protein–RNA binding sites. The algorithm is applied to analyze chloroplast genes. The candidate protein–RNA binding sites were detected upstream of atpF, petB, clpP, psaA, psbA, and psbB genes in many chloroplasts of algae and plants. We suggest that some of these sites are involved in suppressing translation until splicing is completed.