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. 1994 Apr;176(7):2124–2127. doi: 10.1128/jb.176.7.2124-2127.1994

Fibrillarin-like proteins occur in the domain Archaea.

K A Amiri 1
PMCID: PMC205323  PMID: 8144483

Abstract

Fibrillarin is found in the nucleolus of Eucarya and associated with small nucleolar RNAs. It is involved in the processing of precursor rRNA. Two genes, encoding fibrillarin-like proteins from Methanococcus voltae and Methanococcus vannielii, have been isolated. The genes were named flpA (fibrillarin-like protein).

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