In most bacteria, the three ribosomal RNAs (rRNAs) are encoded together in each of several near-identical operons. As soon as the nascent precursor rRNA emerges from RNA polymerase, ribosome assembly begins. This process entails ribosomal protein binding, rRNA folding, rRNA modification, and rRNA processing. In the model organisms and , rRNA processing results in similar mature rRNAs, despite substantial differences in the cohort of RNAses involved. A recent study of , a member of the phylum Bacteroidota (formerly Bacteroidetes), revealed that helix H1 of 23S rRNA is absent from ribosomes, apparently a consequence of rRNA maturation. In this work, we mined RNA-seq data from 19 individual organisms and ocean metatranscriptomic samples to compare rRNA processing across diverse bacterial lineages. We found that mature ribosomes from multiple clades lack H1, and typically these ribosomes also lack an encoded H98. For all groups analysed, H1 is predicted to form in precursor rRNA as part of a longer leader-trailer helix. Hence, we infer that evolutionary loss of H98 sets the stage for H1 removal during 50S subunit maturation.

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