Self-splicing of the Chlamydomonas chloroplast psbA introns.
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Self-splicing of the Chlamydomonas chloroplast psbA introns.
We used alpha-32P-GTP labeling of total RNA preparations to identify self-splicing group I introns in Chlamydomonas. Several RNAs become labeled with alpha-32P-GTP, a subset of which is not seen with RNA from a mutant that lacks both copies of the psbA gene. Hybridization of the GTP-labeled RNAs to chloroplast DNA indicates that they originate from the psbA and rrn 23S genes, respectively, the ...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Plant Cell
سال: 1991
ISSN: 1040-4651,1532-298X
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.3.10.1095