Figure 9

The predicted secondary structures and putative precursors of csR-5sr-1 and csR-5sr-2. (A) The prediction of csR-5sr-1 and csR-5sr-2 on the secondary structure of 5S rRNA from E. coli, according to their location numbers on Chinese cabbage chloroplast 5S rRNA. (B) The sequenced transcripts of putative precursor of csR-5sr-1. The dashed line indicates the internal deletion. (C) Alignment of the putative precursors of csR-5sr-1 with 5S rDNA. The arrow and round-head arrow directed the first and last nucleotides of 5S rRNA, respectively. csR-5sr-1 sequence is underlined in red color. The dotted lines indicate the position of PCR primer 2.