Article
Self-splicing introns in tRNA genes of widely divergent bacteria.
Nature - 14 May 1992
Reinhold-Hurek B, Shub D A
Abstract excerpt
The organization of eukaryotic genes into exons separated by introns has been considered as a primordial arrangement but because it does not exist in eubacterial genomes it may be that introns are relatively recent acquisitions. A self-splicing group I intron has been found in cyanobacteria at the same position of the same gene (that encoding leucyl transfer RNA, UAA anticodon) as a similar group I intron of...
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