RNA composition and base pairing.

Science (New York, N.Y.) ·Vol. 153 ·No. 3732 ·1966-07-08 ·Pages 178-80

Traub W, Elson D

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.

MeSH Terms

Adenine Chemical Phenomena Chemistry Guanine Purines Pyrimidines RNA

Chemicals

Purines Pyrimidines Guanine RNA Adenine

Authors & Affiliations

2 authors, click to expand affiliations / ORCID

Traub W

Elson D

Article Info

Journal

Science (New York, N.Y.)

Abbr.

Science

ISSN

0036-8075

DOI

10.1126/science.153.3732.178

Published

1966-07-08

Pages

178-80

Language

English

Region

United States

NLM ID

0404511

Subset

External Links

PubMed source DOI: 10.1126/science.153.3732.178 View journal details

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