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Mutations which are likely to affect the stability and/or conformation of the RNA give rise to a conditional phenotype: when osmolarity of the medium is raised, the RNAs become partially or completely defective in function at high temperature. The defects associated with mutations at position 159 can be partially rescued by mutating position 164 to restore base-pairing.","In order to obtain high efficiency random mutagenesis localized to the 7SL coding sequence, a new method for forced nucleotide misincorporation in vitro was developed. Greater than 50% mutants can be generated over a large (200 nucleotide) DNA segment. The results from random mutagenesis show that S. pombe 7SL RNA is generally insensitive to point mutations. Fifty seven mutant alleles, many with multiple substitutions, have been transformed into fission yeast. Only five of these, four of which are located in the 35-nucleotide conserved segment, generated lethal phenotypes. A mutant 7SL RNA carrying 6 point mutations shows a temperature sensitive-phenotype. Because of its slow response after shift to the nonpermisive temperature, the defect is likely to be in synthesis or assembly of SRP, rather than in its function.","Made available in DSpace on 2011-05-07T12:02:20Z (GMT). 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