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After short time pulses with 5-[3H]uridine have been given to Chlorella cells, most of the radioactivity of the ribosome fractions is neither in the polysomes nor in the cytoplasmic ribosomes. Peaks with sedimentation of about 50 S and 30 S are found which are comparable in sedimentation to ribosomal subunits of Escherichia coli. During chase treatment with the one-hundred-fold amount of unlabelled uridine, the radioactivity shifts into the 70 S region. The RNA of the rapidly labelled 50 S and 30 S particles is shown to have 23 S, 14 S and 5 S, respectively.
In contrast to this, radioactive inorganic phosphate and amino acids are mainly incorporated into the cytoplasmic ribosomes with 80 S and into, their polysomes.
The chloroplast-damaged mutant of Chlorella, Nr.125 of Schwarze, shows no uridine incorporation into particles of 50 S and of 30 S, but some very weak labelling of the 80 S cytoplasmic monosomes.
Nitrogen deficient Chlorella cells also incorporate uridine mainly into the 50 S and 30 S particles. When chase treatment with unlabelled uridine is performed under recovering conditions, the label shifts into the 70 S particles as well as into the 80 S cytoplasmic ribosomes.
The results indicate that in Chlorella, uridine is incorporated into chloroplast ribosome precursors rather than into particles of nuclear origin.
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Galling, G., Ssymank, V. Bevorzugter Einbau markierten Uridins in die Vorläufer von Chloroplasten-Ribosomen in Algenzellen. Planta 94, 203–212 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00386130
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