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Radiological mapping of the ribosomal RNA transcription unit in E. coli

Nature volume 251, pages 639–641 (1974)Cite this article

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THE ribosomal RNA genes of Escherichia coli are arranged in tandem behind a common promotor in the order of 16S, 23S, 5S (for review see ref. 1). In this report we redetermine the positions of the 16S (0.55 × 106 dalton), 23S (1.10 × 106 dalton), and 5S rRNA (0.04 × 106 dalton) cistrons on their unit of transcription (scripton) by the ultraviolet light mapping technique2–9 principally to demonstrate the applicability of this technique to the determination of the transcriptional linkage of genes in E. coli.

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HACKETT, P., SAUERBIER, W. Radiological mapping of the ribosomal RNA transcription unit in E. coli. Nature 251, 639–641 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1038/251639a0

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