Re: Information per organism

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From: Tom Schneider
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 1996 00:00

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Ken Muldrew (kmuldrew@acs.ucalgary.ca) wrote:
: toms@kaylor.ncifcrf.gov (Tom Schneider) wrote:

: Since I had Kornberg (DNA Replication, 2nd ed.) down from the shelf, I
: couldn't resist a little browsing. It turns out that T4 phage (a phage
: is a virus that infects bacteria) has introns in its genome. Since
: prokaryotes have no mechanism for slicing introns out of the primary
: RNA transcript, it is thought that the tertiary structure of the RNA
: provides the information necessary  for either self-excision or
: skipping during translation. Ya' gotta love it.

And by golly, if I didn't just run across a paper in the NIH library just today
about the exonuclease that lies inside one of those T4 genes!  That's what I
was referring to - it must be in the latest issue of EMBO J or JMB or
something.

  Tom Schneider
  National Cancer Institute
  Laboratory of Mathematical Biology
  Frederick, Maryland  21702-1201
  toms@ncifcrf.gov
  http://www-lmmb.ncifcrf.gov/~toms/

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From: toms@kaylor.ncifcrf.gov (Tom Schneider)
Subject: Re: Information per organism
Date: 1996/02/17
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