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The secondary and tertiary structure of the 5 S rRNA from the horsetail Equisetum arvense
Author(s) -
Digweed Martin,
Ulbrich Norbert,
Erdmann Volker A.
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
febs letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.593
H-Index - 257
eISSN - 1873-3468
pISSN - 0014-5793
DOI - 10.1016/0014-5793(84)80952-7
Subject(s) - deamination , ribosomal rna , nucleotide , protein tertiary structure , protein secondary structure , biology , biochemistry , chemistry , enzyme , gene
The secondary and tertiary structures of the 5 S rRNA from Equisetum arvense were examined using double‐strand and single‐strand specific nucleases, the bisulphite mediated deamination of unpaired cytidines and the ethylnitrosourea modification of accessible phosphodiesters. The results are evaluated in terms of the consensus eukaryotic 5 S rRNA structure, the occurrence of ‘looped‐out’ nucleotides, structure of loops and a putative tertiary structure.