Self-splicing introns in tRNA genes of widely divergent bacteria.

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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 th...

Topics

Base Sequence
Genes, Bacterial
Genetic Variation
Gram-Negative Facultatively Anaerobic Rods
Introns
Molecular Sequence Data
Nucleic Acid Conformation
Oligodeoxyribonucleotides
RNA Splicing
RNA, Transfer
RNA, Transfer, Arg
RNA, Transfer, Ile
RNA, Transfer, Leu
Rhizobium
Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid

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