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The structures of two prokaryotic ribosomal proteins, the carboxyterminal half of L7/L12 from Escherichia coli (L12CTF) and L30 from Bacilus stearothermophilus display a remarkably similar fold in which alpha-helices pack onto one side of an antiparallel, three-stranded, beta-pleated sheet. A detailed comparison of the structures by least-squares methods reveals that more than two-thirds of the alpha carbons can be superimposed with a root mean square distance of 2.33 A. The principal difference is an extra alpha-helix in L12CTF. The sequences of the proteins display a distinct conservation in regions which are crucial to the common fold, in particular the hydrophobic core. It is proposed that the similarity is a result of divergent evolution.
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