Meanings
adjectiveintercistronic (not comparable)
- not comparableBetween cistrons
For example, the proteins OTP70 and PpPPR_43 are involved in intron splicing and CRR2 is involved in intercistronic RNA cleavage in plant organelles [23 –25 ].
2015 October 16, “The DYW Subgroup PPR Protein MEF35 Targets RNA Editing Sites in the Mitochondrial rpl16, nad4 and cob mRNAs in Arabidopsis thaliana”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI
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