Table 4.
Frequencies of non-self BPh interactions in E. coli and T. thermophilus 16S and 23S rRNAs
| 16S rRNA 3D structures |
23 S rRNA 3D structures |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Escherichia coli (2avy) (1j5e) | Thermus thermophilus (lj5e) | Escherichia coli (2aw4) | Thermus thermophilus (2j01) | |
| Total nucleotides | 1530 | 1513 | 2841 | 2772 |
| Number of distinct bases involved in BPh interactions | 185 (12.1%) | 191 (12.6%) | 372 (13.1%) | 371 (13.4%) |
| Total number of BPh interactions | 195 | 203 | 397 | 398 |
| Number of BPh interactions at corresponding E. coli and T. thermophilus positions | 174 | 338 | ||
| Conserved bases at corresponding BPh positions |  |
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About 13% of all bases in the bacterial rRNA structure from BPh interactions and ∼86% of these interactions are common to the E. coli and T. thermophilus rRNA structures. For the corresponding BPh interactions, the base is ∼95% conserved between E. coli and T. thermophilus.