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The primary structure of 5S ribosomal RNA has been determined in five species belonging to the genusMycobacterium and inMicrococcus luteus. The sequences of 5S RNAs from Actinomycetes and relatives point to the existence in this taxon of a bulge on the helix that joins the termini of the molecule. An attempt was made to reconstruct bacterial evolution from a sequence dissimilarity matrix based on 142 eubacterial 5S RNA sequences and corrected for multiple mutation. The algorithm is based on weighted pairwise clustering, and incorporates a correction for divergent mutation rates, as derived by comparison of sequence dissimilarities with an external reference group of eukaryotic 5S RNAs. The resulting tree is compared with the eubacterial phylogeny built on 16S rRNA catalog comparison. The bacteria for which the 5S RNA sequence is known form a number of clusters also discernible in the 16S rRNA phylogeny. However, the branching pattern leading to these clusters shows some notable discrepancies with the aforementioned phylogeny.
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Dams, E., Yamada, T., De Baere, R. et al. Structure of 5S rRNA in actinomycetes and relatives and evolution of eubacteria. J Mol Evol 25, 255–260 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02100019
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