Organization of transfer ribonucleic acid genes in the Escherichia coli chromosome.

Journal of Bacteriology
R K CampenJ M Young

Abstract

The arrangement of transfer ribonucleic acid (RNA) genes in the chromosome of Escherichia coli K-12 (C600) was examined with the techniques of restriction endonuclease digestion and Southern blotting. The number and size of restriction fragments containing transfer or ribosomal RNA sequences or both were estimated by a variety of restriction endonucleases, including EcoRI, BglI, SmaI, SalI, BamHI, and PstI. EcoRI liberated a minimum of 27 fragments which hybridized to transfer RNA and 16 which hybridized to ribosomal RNA. Enzymes which did not cut within the ribosomal RNA operons (PstI and BamHI) liberated 16 and 13 fragments, respectively, which hybridized to transfer RNA. Five PstI and six BamHi fragments also hybridized to ribosomal RNA, suggesting that there may be at least 11 chromosomal locations distinct from ribosomal RNA operons which encode transfer RNA genes. In addition, our data indicated that several transfer RNA genes may be very close to the 5' proximal ends of certain ribosomal RNA operons and close to the 3' distal ends of all seven ribosomal RNA operons. Similar studies have been carried out with 22 purified species of transfer RNA, and we report here the number and size of EcoRI restriction fragments which ...Continue Reading

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