Open AccessThe Complete Nucleotide Sequence of a 23‐S rRNA Gene from Tobacco Chloroplasts
Author(s) -
TAKAIWA Furnio,
SUGIURA Masahiro
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
european journal of biochemistry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1432-1033
pISSN - 0014-2956
DOI - 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1982.tb05901.x
Subject(s) - chloroplast , gene , genetics , sequence (biology) , biology , ribosomal rna , nucleic acid sequence
The nucleotide sequence of a tobacco chloroplast 23‐S rRNA gene, including the spacer between it and the 4.5‐S rRNA gene, has been determined. The 23‐S rRNA coding region is 2804‐base‐pairs long. A comparison with the 23‐S rRNA sequence of Escherichia coli reveals strong homology and further shows a similarity between the chloroplast 4.5‐S rRNA and the 3′‐terminal region of E. coli 23‐S rRNA. However, the 101‐base‐pair spacer sequence between the 23‐S and 4.5‐S rRNA genes has little homology with E. coli 23‐S rRNA.