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Chloroplast Ribosomal Protein Operons of Euglena gracilis

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The Euglena gracilis chloroplast genome encodes at least 17 chloroplast ribosomal proteins. Most are present in polycistronic operons. Known coding loci have the following gene organizations: (1) rps 12-rps7-tufA, (2) rpl20, (3) rpl23-rpl2-rpsl9-rpl22-rps3-orf5l6-rpll6-rpll4-rpl5-rps8-rpl36-trnI-rps14, (4) rps4-rps11, and (5) rps2-atpI-atpH-atpF-atpA. These 17 chloroplast ribosomal protein genes compare in number to the 19 found in higher plant chloroplast genomes. Many of the Euglena genes contain group III introns, which are unique to the Euglena chloroplast genome. In this article, the structure, transcription, introns and RNA processing pathways of Euglena chloroplast ribosomal protein operons will be reviewed.

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    Present address: Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Texas A and M University, College Station, Texas, 77843, USA

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  1. Department of Biochemistry, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 85721, USA

    Richard B. Hallick

  2. Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 85721, USA

    Richard B. Hallick, David A. Christopher, Donald W. Copertino, Robert G. Drager, Kristin P. Jenkins & Jennifer K. Stevenson

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  1. Laboratoire de Biologie Moléculaire Végétale, Université Joseph Fourier, B.P.53X, 38041, Grenoble cedex, France

    R. Mache

  2. Laboratoire de Biochimie Végétale, Université de Neuchâtel, CH-2007, Neuchâtel, Switzerland

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  3. Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare Genetik, Ihnestrasse 73, W-1000, Berlin 33, Germany

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Hallick, R.B., Christopher, D.A., Copertino, D.W., Drager, R.G., Jenkins, K.P., Stevenson, J.K. (1991). Chloroplast Ribosomal Protein Operons of Euglena gracilis . In: Mache, R., Stutz, E., Subramanian, A.R. (eds) The Translational Apparatus of Photosynthetic Organelles. NATO ASI Series, vol 55. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-75145-5_12

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