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. 1976 Jul 1;157(1):275–277. doi: 10.1042/bj1570275

Higher-plant mitochondrial ribosomes contain a 5S ribosomal ribonucleic acid component.

C J Leaver, M A Harmey
PMCID: PMC1163844  PMID: 962861

Abstract

Ribosomes from higher-plant mitochondria contain 5S rRNA, in contrast with the mitochondrial ribosomes of animals and fungi, in which such a component has not been detected. In common with the ribosomes of prokaryotes and chloroplasts, higher-plant mitochondrial ribosomes do not appear to contain an RNA equivalent to the 5.8 S rRNA that is found in eukaryoytes hydrogen-bonded to the largest of the cytoplasmic rRNA species.

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