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Abstract
Fluorescence studies with organelle transfer RNAs separated from their cytoplasmic counterparts revealed that phenylalanine tRNA from Euglena chloroplasts or Neurospora mitochondria does not contain a fluorescent "base Y." In contrast, cytoplasmic phenylalanine tRNA from Euglena and cytoplasmic tRNA from Neurospora were found to contain fluorescent bases. The fluorescence-emission spectra of Neurospora cytoplasmic tRNAs and those of the related ascomycete Saccharomyces cerevisiue were observed to be quite different. The results support the generalization that eukaryotic tRNAs contain a fluorescent base, but indicate that their respective organelle tRNAs do not. They also indicate a striking parallelism between organelle and prokaryotic tRNAs.Entities:
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Year: 1971 PMID: 4257127 PMCID: PMC389572 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.68.12.2972
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A ISSN: 0027-8424 Impact factor: 11.205