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The 30S ribosomal proteins from Bacillus stearothermophilus strains 799 and 10 were purified and correlated with those from E. coli by comparing their two-dimensional electrophoretic mobility, immunological cross-reaction, molecular weight, amino acid composition and partial amino acid sequence. A high degree of similarity was observed among the proteins from these taxonomically distant bacterial species.
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Communicated by E. Bautz
Paper No. 82 on “Ribosomal proteins”-preceding paper is by J. Horne and V. A. Erdmann, FEBS Letters, in press.
N.R.C.C. No. 13514.
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Isono, K., Isono, S., Stöffler, G. et al. Correlation between 30S ribosomal proteins of Bacillus stearothermophilus and Escherichia coli . Molec. Gen. Genet. 127, 191–195 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00333666
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00333666