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Science 12 August 1983:
Vol. 221. no. 4611, pp. 656 - 659
DOI: 10.1126/science.221.4611.656
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Sequence of the 16S Ribosomal RNA from Halobacterium volcanii, an Archaebacterium

RAMESH GUPTA 1, JAN M. LANTER 1, and CARL R. WOESE 1

1 Department of Genetics and Development, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana 61801

The sequence of the 16S ribosomal RNA (rRNA) from the archaebacterium Halobacterium volcanii has been determined by DNA sequencing methods. The archaebacterial rRNA is similar to its eubacterial counterpart in secondary structure. Although it is closer in sequence to the eubacterial 16S rRNA than to the eukaryotic 16S-like rRNA, the H. volcanii sequence also shows certain points of specific similarity to its eukaryotic counterpart. Since the H. volcanii sequence is closer to both the eubacterial and the eukaryotic sequences than these two are to one another, it follows that the archaebacterial sequence resembles their common ancestral sequence more closely than does either of the other two versions.

Submitted on January 31, 1983
Revised on June 13, 1983


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