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. 1985 Feb 11;13(3):975–984. doi: 10.1093/nar/13.3.975

The chloroplast ribosomal intron of Chlamydomonas reinhardii codes for a polypeptide related to mitochondrial maturases.

J D Rochaix, M Rahire, F Michel
PMCID: PMC341046  PMID: 4000933

Abstract

The sequences of the 888bp chloroplast ribosomal intron and of the flanking 23S rRNA gene regions of Chlamydomonasreinhardii have been established. The intron can be folded with a secondary structure which is typical of group I introns of fungal mitochondrial genes. It contains a 489bp open reading frame encoding a potential polypeptide that is related to mitochondrial maturases.

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