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A novel type of bacterial transcription unit, specifying mRNA, rRNA, and tRNA
✍ Scribed by Erdei, Sára ;Boros, Imre ;Szabó, Gábor ;Venetianer, Pál
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 1983
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 553 KB
- Volume
- 191
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0026-8925
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✦ Synopsis
Previously it had been shown that a chromosomal region preceding the rrnB gene of Escherichia coli contains an 867 base pair-long open reading frame and it is co-transcribed with the rrnB gene both in vitro and in vivo. Here we report that minicells programmed by recombinant plasmids carrying this region or a deletion derivative of it, synthetise a protein of the expected size. Thus this transcription unit codes for mRNA, rRNA, and tRNA.