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Nucleic Acids Research, 1985, Vol. 13, No. 20 7445-7455
© 1985

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Sequence comparison of the rDNA introns from six different species of Tetrahymena

Henrik Nielsen and Jan Engberg

Department of Biochemistry B, Panum Institute, University of Copenhagen Blegdamsvej 3C, DK-2200 Copenhagen N, Denmark

Received September 10, 1985. Accepted September 27, 1985.

We have studied the sequence variation of the rDNA intron among six species of Tetrahymena. From these data, the intron appears to be relatively well conserved in evolution. We have evaluated the sequence variations among the most distant of these species in relation to the secondary structure model for the intron RNA of Cech et al. (Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 80, 3903 (83)). Most of the sequence variation in the four new sequences reported here is found in single stranded loops in the model. However, in four cases we found nucleotide substitutions in duplex stem regions, two of them involving compensating base pair changes. Interestingly, one of these is found in a region that is known to be dispensable in the in vitro splicing reaction suggesting differences between the in vivo and in vitro reactions. One of the single nucleotide deletions is found in the socalled "internal guide sequence" which has been implicated in the alignment process during splicing. In conclusion, none of the observed natural sequence variations are in disfavor of the proposed secondary structure model.


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