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Rainer M. Maier
Researcher at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
Publications - 34
Citations - 3115
Rainer M. Maier is an academic researcher from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. The author has contributed to research in topics: RNA editing & Gene. The author has an hindex of 23, co-authored 34 publications receiving 2965 citations. Previous affiliations of Rainer M. Maier include University of Marburg & University of Freiburg.
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Complete sequence of the maize chloroplast genome: gene content, hotspots of divergence and fine tuning of genetic information by transcript editing.
TL;DR: A survey of the 25 editing positions identified in 13 different transcripts of the maize plastome shows that representatives of all protein coding gene classes are subject to editing, particularly for the second codon position and for certain codon transitions.
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Editing of a chloroplast mRNA by creation of an initiation codon
TL;DR: Evidence is presented for a C → U editing that is responsible for the conversion of the ACG codon to an AUG initiation codon in the mRNA transcript from the rpl2 gene of the maize plastome, showing that mRNA editing can also occur in chloroplasts.
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The plastid chromosome of spinach (Spinacia oleracea): complete nucleotide sequence and gene organization
Christian Schmitz-Linneweber,Rainer M. Maier,Jean-Pierre Alcaraz,Annick Cottet,Reinhold G. Herrmann,Régis Mache +5 more
TL;DR: The chloroplast chromosome of spinach is a double-stranded circular DNA molecule of 150 725 nucleotide pairs and a comparison of this chromosome with those of the three other autotrophic dicotyledons for which complete DNA sequences of plastid chromosomes are available confirms a conserved overall structure.
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Complete nucleotide sequence of the
H. Hupfer,M. Swiatek,S. Hornung,R. G. Herrmann,Rainer M. Maier,Wan-Ling Chiu,Barbara B. Sears +6 more
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Comparative analysis of plastid transcription profiles of entire plastid chromosomes from tobacco attributed to wild-type and PEP-deficient transcription machineries
Julia Legen,Sabine Kemp,Kirsten Krause,Birgit Profanter,Reinhold G. Herrmann,Rainer M. Maier +5 more
TL;DR: The findings show that the absence of photosynthesis-related, plastome-encoded polypeptides in PEP-deficient plants is not directly caused by a lack of transcription by PEP, and demonstrate that the functional integration of PEP and NEP into the genetic system of the plant cell during evolution is substantially more complex than presently supposed.