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XB-ART-29891
Chromosoma 1984 Jan 01;904:254-60. doi: 10.1007/bf00287032.
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Chromosomal location of a major tRNA gene cluster of Xenopus laevis.

Fostel J , Narayanswami S , Hamkalo B , Clarkson SG , Pardue ML .


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In Xenopus laevis, genes encoding tRNAPhe, tRNATyr, tRNAMet1, tRNAAsn, tRNAAla, tRNALeu, and tRNALys are clustered within a 3.18-kb (kilobase) fragment of DNA. This fragment is tandemly repeated some 150 times in the haploid genome and its components are found outside the repeat only to a limited extent. The fragment hybridizes in situ to a single site very near the telomere on the long arm of one of the acrocentric chromosomes of the group comprising chromosomes 13-18. All the chromosomes of this group also hybridize with DNA coding for oocyte-specific 5S RNA. The tRNA gene cluster is slightly proximal to the cluster of 5S RNA genes.

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Species referenced: Xenopus laevis
Genes referenced: mt-tr trna

References [+] :
Birnstiel, Kinetic complexity of RNA molecules. 1972, Pubmed, Xenbase