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Science 8 July 1966:
Vol. 153. no. 3732, pp. 178 - 180
DOI: 10.1126/science.153.3732.178
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RNA Composition and Base Pairing

W. Traub 1 and D. Elson 1

1 Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovoth, Israel

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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Serine Specific Transfer Ribonucleic Acids. XIV. Comparison of Nucleotide Sequences and Secondary Structure Models.
H. G. Zachau, D. Dutting, H. Feldmann, F. Melchers, and W. Karau (1966)
Cold Spring Harb Symp Quant Biol 31, 417-424
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