Chloroplast ribosomal RNA genes in Euglena gracilis exist as three clustered tandem repeats |
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Authors: | James R.Y. Rawson Sidney R. Kushner Daniel Vapnek N. Kirby Alton Cindy L. Boerma |
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Affiliation: | Departments of Botany, Biochemistry and Microbiology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602 U.S.A. |
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Abstract: | Chloroplast ribosomal DNA from Euglena gracilis was partially purified, digested with restriction endonucleases BamHI or EcoRI and cloned into bacterial plasmids. Plasmids containing the ribosomal DNA were identified by their ability to hybridize to chloroplast ribosomal RNA and were physically mapped using restriction endonucleases BamHI, EcoRI, HindIII and HpaI. The nucleotide sequences coding for the 16S and the 23S chloroplast ribosomal RNAs were located on these plasmids by hybridizing the individual RNAs to denatured restriction endonuclease DNA fragments immobilized on nitrocellulose filters. Restriction endonuclease fragments from chloroplast DNA were analyzed in a similar fashion. These data permitted the localization on a BamHI map of the chloroplast DNA three tandemly arranged chloroplast ribosomal RNA genes. Each ribosomal RNA gene consisted of a 4.6 kilobase pair region coding for the 16S and 23S ribosomal RNAs and a 0.8 kilobase pair spacer region. The chloroplast ribosomal DNA represented 12% of the chloroplast DNA and is G + C rich. |
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Keywords: | Recombinant DNA cloning RSF2124 and pBR313 plasmids To whom requests for reprints should be addressed. |
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