title: A tRNA pseudogene in the archaeon Methanococcus jannaschii.
abstract: While searching the first completely sequenced genome of the archaeon Methanococcus jannaschii for a small RNA gene, we discovered a 5' truncated gene of a transfer RNA (tRNA(Ser-UCR)) at position 334,431-334,486; including the CCA-end that exactly matched the 3' terminal domain of the annotated M. jannaschii tRNA(Ser-UCR) gene located at position 303,992-304,081. This truncated tRNA gene covering 56 nucleotides (about 2/3) of the genuine tRNA represents, to the best of our knowledge, the first described tRNA pseudogene in the archaeal domain.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Experimental Pathology/Molecular Neurobiology, University of Münster, Germany.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Lühn
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Makalowski
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Brosius
mesh_terms: D001483:Base Sequence; D019641:DNA, Archaeal; D019766:Genes, Archaeal; D017017:Methanococcus / Q000235:genetics*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D011544:Pseudogenes; D019642:RNA, Archaeal; D012346:RNA, Transfer, Amino Acyl
chemical_list: D019641:DNA, Archaeal; D019642:RNA, Archaeal; D012346:RNA, Transfer, Amino Acyl