Re-annotation of 12,495 prokaryotic 16S rRNA 3’ ends and analysis of Shine-Dalgarno and anti-Shine-Dalgarno sequences
Fig 1
Sequence of 3’ 37 nucleotides of E. coli 16S rRNA gene.
The last 24 nucleotides of helix 45 are in italics (yellow box), followed by the 13 nucleotide “tail” (underlined, red box). The anti-Shine-Dalgarno sequence CCTCCT is underlined and in bold. The terminal 3’ “A” residue is indicated with an asterisk. The 10 genomic nucleotides following the end of the tail are shown in lower case (blue box). The overall positioning of this region of the 16S rRNA is indicated (red line).