Clusters of 5S rRNAs in the intergenic region of ubiquitin genes in

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Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Gene Structure and Expression
Volume 1216, Issue 1, 19 October 1993, Pages 137–139
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Clusters of 5S rRNAs in the intergenic
region of ubiquitin genes in Tetrahymena
pyriformis
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Paulo Guerreiro,
Ana Neves,
Claudina Rodrigues-Pousada
Laboratório de Genética Molecular, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência, Apartado 14, 2781
Oeiras Codex Portugal
Abstract
Here, we report the molecular analysis of two independent 5S rRNA clusters found in
the intergenic region of two ubiquitin genomic clones isolated from Tetrahymena
pyriformis. Each cluster contains two 120-bp-long coding regions organized in tandem
with 142/145-bp-long spacers.
Keywords
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Genome;
Ubiquitin;
Intergenic region;
Ribosomal gene, 5S;
rRNA cluster;
(T. pyriformis)
Corresponding author. Fax: +351 1 4431631.
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