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Identification of an rRNA operon promoter from Zea mays chloroplasts which excludes the proximal tRNA Val GAC from the primary transcript
Author(s) -
Strittmatter Günter,
GozdzickaJozefiak Anna,
Kössel Hans
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
the embo journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 7.484
H-Index - 392
eISSN - 1460-2075
pISSN - 0261-4189
DOI - 10.1002/j.1460-2075.1985.tb03672.x
Subject(s) - physics , biology , library science , computer science
The transcriptional start site of the rRNA operon from Zea mays chloroplasts has been identified by a combination of S1 mapping and Southern hybridization with in vitro capped chloroplast RNA as radioactive probe. This is the first example in which the transcriptional start site of a choloroplast gene has been established by identification of the triphosphate‐bearing RNA terminus. The start site is located at position −117 proximal to the 16S rRNA gene and is preceded by −10 and −35 sequences homologous to prokaryotic promoters. The primary transcript directed by this promoter does not include tRNA Val GAC sequences which are coded further upstream between positions −302 and −231. A major processing site of the primary rRNA transcript was identified at position −30 which is embedded in a secondary structure typical for prokaryotic RNase III processing sites. Several putative processing and start sites of the tRNA Val GAC transcipts have been mapped by primer extension with reverse transcriptase.