Open AccessThe chloroplast ribosomal intron ofChiamydomonas reinhardiicodes for a polypeptide related to mitochondrial maturases
Author(s) -
François Michel
Publication year - 1985
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/13.3.975
Subject(s) - biology , intron , group i catalytic intron , genetics , ribosomal rna , mitochondrial dna , open reading frame , gene , group ii intron , chloroplast , ribosomal protein , microbiology and biotechnology , ribosome , rna splicing , rna , peptide sequence
The sequences of the 888bp chloroplast ribosomal intron and of the flanking 23S rRNA gene regions of Chlamydomonasreinhardii have been established. The intron can be folded with a secondary structure which is typical of group I introns of fungal mitochondrial genes. It contains a 489bp open reading frame encoding a potential polypeptide that is related to mitochondrial maturases.