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Nucleic Acids Research, 1994, Vol. 22, No. 19 3936-3942
© 1994

MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Phylogenetically preserved inter-rRNA base pairs: involvement in ribosomal subunit association

T.A. Thanaraj*

Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology Hyderabad, India 500 007

Received May 31, 1994. Revised August 15, 1994. Accepted August 15, 1994.

Intermolecular complementary base pairs, that can be formed between the bases from single-stranded and weak stem regions on 16S rRNA and those on 23S rRNA, were located and checked for preservation in a variety of species covering the complete phylogenetic spectrum. Putative base pairs that exhibited two ‘compensatory base pair changes’ (a requisite as dictated by the approach of ‘comparative sequence data analysis’) were picked up. Potential base pairs were selected by assessing the frequency and taxonomy specificity of the occurrence of compensatory base pair changes against those of other types of base pair changes. The selected base pairs were classified as universal, non-mitochondrial, and prokaryote-specific. The positions of the proposed base pairs occur near the structurally and functionally important regions on rRNAs.

*Present address: c/o Professor Patrick Argos, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Postfach 10 2209, 6900 Heidelberg, Meyerhofstrasse I, Germany


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