| Value |
6
nucleotides
|
| Organism |
prokaryote |
| Reference |
Shine J, Dalgarno L. Determinant of cistron specificity in bacterial ribosomes. Nature. 1975 Mar 6 254(5495):34-8.PubMed ID803646
|
| Method |
A procedure for the stepwise removal of seven to eight nucleotides from the 3' terminus was applied to 16S RNA isolated from bacteria |
| Comments |
The Shine-Dalgarno sequence (or Shine-Dalgarno box) is a ribosomal binding site generally located 6-7 nucleotides upstream of the start codon AUG. The six-base consensus sequence is AGGAGG. See BNID 103092 |
| Entered by |
Uri M |
| ID |
103091 |