title: Nucleotide sequence of maize chloroplast rpS11 with conserved amino acid sequence between eukaryotes, bacteria and plastids.
abstract: Nucleotide sequence of a 721 base pair segment of maize chloroplast DNA, encoding the putative chloroplast ribosomal protein S11 at physical map position 33.1-33.5 Kbp, is described. A Shine-Dalgarno sequence and computer-derived stem-loop structures of dyad symmetry are present in the spacer region between rpS11 and its 5' upstream gene rpL36. The deduced amino acid sequence of maize chloroplast S11 shows 69%, 66%, 62%, 57%, 48% and 45% sequence identity to the corresponding sequences of tobacco, spinach, pea, liverwort, Escherichia coli and Bacillus subtilis, respectively, and 41% sequence identity to three eukaryotic cytoplasmic ribosomal proteins, S14 of Chinese hamster and of human and rp59 of yeast. Maize chloroplast r-protein S11 is larger than the other published S11s of plants and bacteria, due to the apparent tandem introduction of a short sequence stretch of internal homology.
authors.affiliation: Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare Genetik, Abteilung Wittmann, Berlin, (Dahlem), West Germany.
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Markmann-Mulisch
authors.forename: A R
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Subramanian
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001412:Bacillus subtilis / Q000235:genetics; D001483:Base Sequence; D002736:Chloroplasts / Q000032:analysis*; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000235:genetics; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010944:Plants / Q000235:genetics; D010945:Plants, Edible / Q000235:genetics; D010947:Plants, Toxic; D012269:Ribosomal Proteins / Q000235:genetics*; D013045:Species Specificity; D014026:Nicotiana / Q000235:genetics; D003313:Zea mays / Q000032:analysis*
chemical_list: D012269:Ribosomal Proteins; C045454:ribosomal protein S11