“…The tRNA:adenosine 34 deaminase likely belongs to the family of deaminases (the so-called editing enzymes or dsRNA-specific editases) that act on doublestranded RNA (Hough & Bass, 1994;O'Connell & Keller, 1994;Kim et al, 1994), on intron-containing precursor mRNA (Melcher et al, 1995(Melcher et al, , 1996Rueter et al, 1995;Yang et al, 1995), and/or on RNA virus (Rataul et al, 1992;Ecker et al, 1995;Horikami & Moyer, 1995;Polson et al, 1996). It may also have much in common with another family of deaminases that act on the amino group in the C-4 position of free cytidine (Betts et al, 1994), 2'deoxy-CMP (McIntosh & Haynes, 1986), or specific cytidine bases in polymeric mRNA (e.g.…”