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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Sep 28.
Published in final edited form as: Wiley Interdiscip Rev Syst Biol Med. 2009 Sep–Oct;1(2):202–209. doi: 10.1002/wsbm.10

FIGURE 1.

FIGURE 1

Deamination of adenosine by adenosine deaminases acting on RNAs (ADARs) alters base-pairing preferences. (a) Hydrolytic deamination of adenosine yields inosine. (b) While adenosine base pairs with uridine, inosine forms Watson–Crick base pairing with cytidine, analogous to that of guanosine.