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Transfer RNA genes ofZea mays chloroplast DNA

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A minimum of 37 genes corresponding to tRNAs for 17 different amino acids have been localized on the restriction endonuclease cleavage site map of theZea mays chloroplast DNA molecule. Of these, 14 genes corresponding to tRNAs for 11 amino acids are located in the larger of the two single-copy regions which separate the two inverted copies of the repeat region. One tRNA gene is in the smaller single-copy region. Each copy of the large repeated sequence contains, in addition to the ribosomal RNA genes, 11 tRNA genes corresponding to tRNAs for 8 amino acids. The genes for tRNA2 Ile and tRNAAla map in the ribosomal spacer sequence separating the 16S and 23S ribosomal RNA genes. The three isoaccepting species for the tRNAsLeu and the three for tRNAsSer, as well as the two isoaccepting species for tRNAAsn, tRNAGly, tRNAsIle, tRNAsMet, tRNAsThr, are shown to be encoded at different loci.

Two independent methods have been used for the localization of tRNA genes on the physical map of the maize chloroplast DNA molecule: (a) cloned chloroplast DNA fragments were hybridized with radioactively-labelled total 4S RNAs, the hybridized RNAs were then eluted, and identified by two-dimensional polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, and (b) individual tRNAs were32P-labelledin vitro and hybridized to DNA fragments generated by digestion of maize chloroplast DNA with various restriction endonucleases.

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Abbreviations

tRNA:

transfer RNA

rRNA:

ribosomal RNA

cpDNA:

chloroplast DNA

Enzymes:

yeast adenyl (cytidyl) nucleotidyl transferase E.C. 2.7.7.25

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  1. Richard F. Selden

    Present address: Department of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, 02114, Boston, MA, USA

  2. Andre Steinmetz

    Present address: Institut de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire du C.N.R.S., Université Louis Pasteur, 15 rue Descartes, F-67084, Strasbourg Cedex, France

  3. Lee McIntosh

    Present address: MSU-DOE Plant Research Laboratory, Michigan State University, 48824, East Lansing, MI, USA

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  1. The Biological Laboratories, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

    Richard F. Selden, Andre Steinmetz, Lee McIntosh & Lawrence Bogorad

  2. Institut de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire du C.N.R.S., Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France

    Gerard Burkard, Mfika Mubumbila, Marcel Kuntz, Edwin J. Crouse & Jacques H. Weil

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Selden, R.F., Steinmetz, A., McIntosh, L. et al. Transfer RNA genes ofZea mays chloroplast DNA. Plant Mol Biol 2, 141–153 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01578514

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