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. 1966 Jul 8;153(3732):178-80.
doi: 10.1126/science.153.3732.178.

RNA composition and base pairing

W Traub, D Elson

RNA composition and base pairing

W Traub et al. Science. .

Abstract

If RNA may contain a small proportion of adenine-guanine base pairs, these could interrupt the continuity of helical structure in a polynucleotide, in keeping with current theories of RNA structure, and could also account for the experimentally observed tendency for 6-amino bases to equal 6-keto bases and for purines to exceed pyrimidines.

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