Does ribosomal DNA get out of the micronuclear chromosome in Paramecium tetraurelia by means of a rolling circle?

Molecular and Cellular Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 7792-7800

  Preer, Louise B ^a   Rudman, Bertina ^a   Pollack, Sidney ^b   Preer Jr , John R ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LEBANON VALLEY COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME DNA;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CHROMOSOME; DNA TRANSFER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE SUBSTITUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARAMECIUM TETRAURELIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TELOMERE;

PARAMECIUM TETRAURELIA; PROTOZOA;

EID: 0032740122     PISSN: 02707306     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/MCB.19.11.7792     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. Allen, S. L., M. I. Altschuler, P. J. Bruns, J. Cohen, F. P. Doerder, J. Gaertig, M. Gorovsky, E. Orias, and A. Turkewitz. 1998. Proposed genetic nomenclature rules for Tetrahymena thermophila, Paramecium primaurelia and Paramecium tetraurelia. Genetics 149:459-462.
2. 1a. Amar, L. Personal communication.
3. Botchan, M., W. Todd, and J. Sambrook. 1978. Studies on simian virus 40 excision from cellular chromosomes. Cold Spring Harbor Symp. Quant. Biol. 43:709-719.
4. Din, N., J. Engberg, and J. G. Gall. 1982. The nucleotide sequence of the transcription termination site of the ribosomal RNA gene in Tetrahymena thermophila. Nucleic Acids Res. 10:1503-1513.
5. Findly, R. C., and J. G. Gall. 1978. Free ribosomal RNA genes in Paramecium are tandemly repeated. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 75:3312-3316.
6. Findly, R. C., and J. G. Gall. 1980. Organization of ribosomal genes in Paramecium tetraurelia. J. Cell Biol. 84:547-549.
7. Forney, J. D., L. M. Epstein, L. B. Preer, B. M. Rudman, D. J. Widmayer, W. H. Klein, and J. R. Preer, Jr. 1983. Structure and expression of genes for surface proteins in Paramecium. Mol. Cell. Biol. 3:466-474.
8. Meyer, E. 1992. Induction of specific macronuclear developmental mutations by microinjection of a cloned telomeric gene in Paramecium primaurelia. Genes Dev. 6:211-222.
9. Phan, H. L., J. Forney, and E. H. Blackburn. 1989. Analysis of Paramecium macronuclear DNA using pulsed field gel electrophoresis. J. Protozool. 36: 402-408.
10. Rudman, B. M., and J. R. Preer, Jr. 1996. Non-Mendelian inheritance of revertants of paranoiac in Paramecium. Eur. J. Protozool. 32:141-146.
11. Sambrook, J., M. Botchan, P. Gallimore, B. Ozanne, V. Pettersson, J. Williams, and P. A. Sharp. 1974. Viral DNA sequences in cells transformed by simian virus 40, adenovirus type 2 and adenovirus type 5. Cold Spring Harbor Symp. Quant. Biol. 39:615-632.
12. Sogin, M. L., and H. J. Elwood. 1986. Primary structure of the Paramecium tetraurelia small sub-unit rRNA coding region: phylogenetic relationships within the Ciliophora. J. Mol. Evol. 23:53-60.
13. Steele, C. J., G. A. Barkocy-Gallagher, L. B. Preer, and J. R. Preer, Jr. 1994. Developmentally excised sequences in micronuclear DNA of Paramecium. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 91:2255-2259.
14. Wellauer, P. K., R. H. Reeder, I. B. Dawid, and D. D. Brown. 1976. The arrangement of length heterogeneity in repeating units of amplified and chromosomal ribosomal DNA from Xenopus laevis. J. Mol. Biol. 105:487-505.
15. Yao, M.-C. 1986. Amplification of ribosomal RNA genes, p. 179-201. In J. G. Gall (ed.), The molecular biology of ciliated protozoa. Academic Press, New York, N.Y.