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. 1989 Dec 5;210(3):497-512.
doi: 10.1016/0022-2836(89)90126-5.

The 5' end of U3 snRNA can be crosslinked in vivo to the external transcribed spacer of rat ribosomal RNA precursors

I L Stroke  1 , A M Weiner
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The 5' end of U3 snRNA can be crosslinked in vivo to the external transcribed spacer of rat ribosomal RNA precursors

I L Stroke et al. J Mol Biol. .
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Abstract

From previous work it was known that U3 RNA is hydrogen bonded to nucleolar 28 S to 35 S RNA and can be covalently crosslinked to RNA of greater than 28 S by irradiation in vivo with long-wave ultraviolet light in the presence of 4'-aminomethyl-4,5',8-trimethylpsoralen (AMT psoralen). Here we use a novel sandwich blot technique to identify these large nucleolar RNA species as rRNA precursors and to map the site(s) of crosslinking in vivo. The crosslink occurs between one or more residues near the 5' end of U3 RNA and a 380 nucleotide region of the rat rRNA external transcribed spacer (ETS1). We have sequenced this region of the rat ETS and we show that it includes an RNA-processing site analogous to those previously mapped to approximately 3.5 kb upstream from the 5' end of mouse and human 18 S rRNAs.

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