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Architecture of ribosomal RNA: constraints on the sequence of "tetra-loops".
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The four-base loops that cap many double-helical structures in rRNA (the so-called "tetra-loops") exhibit highly invariant to highly variable sequences depending upon their location in the molecule. However, in the vast majority of these cases the sequence of a tetra-loop is independent of its location and conforms to one of three general motifs, GNRA, UNCG, and (more rarely) CUUG. For the most frequently varying of the 16S rRNA tetra-loops, that at position 83 (Escherichia coli numbering), the three sequences CUUG, UUCG, and GCAA account for almost all examples encountered, and each of them has independently arisen at least a dozen times. The closing base pair of tetra-loop hairpins reflects the loop sequence, tending to be C.G for UUCG loops and G.C for CUUG loops.
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- Woese, C. R., Winker, S., & Gutell, R. R.
- Venue
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Published
- 1990-11
- Volume
- 87
- Issue
- 21
- Pages
- 8467-8471
- ISSN
- 0027-8424 (ISSN-L)
- 1091-6490
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- W1985124981
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- References
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- 6.48
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- en
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