Open AccessNucleotide sequences of the 5.8S rRNAs of a mollusc and a porifer, and considerations regarding the secondary structure of 5.8S rRNA and its interaction with MS rRNA
Author(s) -
D. Ursi,
Antoon Vandenberghe,
Rupert De Wächter
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
nucleic acids research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 9.008
H-Index - 537
eISSN - 1362-4954
pISSN - 0305-1048
DOI - 10.1093/nar/11.22.8111
Subject(s) - biology , ribosomal rna , rna , protein secondary structure , nucleic acid secondary structure , genetics , computational biology , microbiology and biotechnology , biochemistry , gene
We report the primary structures of the 5.8 S ribosomal RNAs isolated from the sponge Hymeniacidon sanguinea and the snail Arion rufus. We had previously proposed (Ursi et al., Nucl. Acids Res. 10, 3517-3530 (1982)) a secondary structure model on the basis of a comparison of twelve 5.8 S RNA sequences then known, and a matching model for the interaction of 5.8 S RNA with 26 S RNA in yeast. Here we show that the secondary structure model can be extended to the 25 sequences presently available, and that the interaction model can be extended to the binding of 5.8 S RNA to the 5'-terminal domain of 28 S (26 S) RNA in three species.