Self-splicing introns in tRNA genes of widely divergent bacteria
@article{ReinholdHurek1992SelfsplicingII, title={Self-splicing introns in tRNA genes of widely divergent bacteria}, author={Barbara Reinhold-Hurek and David. A. Shub}, journal={Nature}, year={1992}, volume={357}, pages={173-176} }
THE organization of eukaryotic genes into exons separated by introns has been considered as a primordial arrangement1,2 but because it does not exist in eubacterial genomes it may be that introns are relatively recent acquisitions3. 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 chloroplasts4,5, which indicates that this intron predates the invasion of…
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