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. 1968 Oct;8(10):1104–1118. doi: 10.1016/S0006-3495(68)86542-7

Isolation and Characterization of Bacterial Ribosomal RNA Cistrons

David E Kohne
PMCID: PMC1367658  PMID: 4878345

Abstract

The DNA sequences which code for ribosomal DNA have been isolated and purified. The technique used has general application for RNA:DNA hybridization studies and enables the isolation of any gene for which sufficient gene product can be obtained. Experiments with isolated ribosomal RNA cistrons demonstrated that (a) the majority of the ribosomal cistrons are similar to one another; (b) the cistrons which are similar to one another are virtually identical to one another; (c) ribosomal cistrons of different bacterial species are closely related to one another.

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