What are the two main deamination based editing mechanisms?
Adenosine to inosine and cytosine to uracil
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What is apolipoprotein B?
a serum protein that binds to LDL, transporting cholesterol in the blood
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What are the three main degradation pathways?
Removal of the 3’ polyA tail first followed by decapping and exonucleolytic decay of both ends or decapping first or by breakdown of the mRNA via endonucleases.
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What do microRNAs do?
Control expression of more than 1/3rd of all human genes mainly by targeting specific mRNAs for degradation by Argonaute/Dicer silencing complexes
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What do anti-sense RNAs do?
interfere with translation by mopping out specific sense mRNAs
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What is apolipoprotein B?
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a serum protein that binds to LDL, transporting cholesterol in the blood
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