A survey of RNA editing in human brain

Table 3.

A→I editing at different RNA base pairings


Match/mismatch

Subset of Alu

Total (bp)

Edits

Edited %
A:U matches All Alus 5839 465 8
Alus with single inverted copy 581 44 8
A:G mismatches All Alus 217 13 6
Alus with single inverted copy 23 0 0
A:C mismatches All Alus 1166 249 21
Alus with single inverted copy 113 24 21
A:A mismatches All Alus 264 11 4
Alus with single inverted copy 24 1 4
Total matches All Alus 25,363 465 1.8
Alus with single inverted copy 2400 44 1.8
Total mismatches All Alus 8368 273 3.3

Alus with single inverted copy
769
25
3.1
  • Each edited Alu has been BLAST-aligned to the nearest inverted Alu copy in the same transcript to form a hypothetical double-stranded RNA molecule. The numbers of adenines that are matched (A:U) and mismatched (A:A, A:C, A:G) and the numbers of each class of match/mismatch that are edited have been calculated. The calculations have been performed for all edited Alus and separately for the subset of these that have only a single inverted copy in the same intron. The results were from 159 alignments and 738 edits (all Alus) and 14 alignments and 69 edits (Alus with a single inverted copy in the same intron).

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  1. Genome Res. 14: 2379-2387

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