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. 1977 Aug 1;165(2):237–245. doi: 10.1042/bj1650237

Characterization of double-stranded ribonucleic acid sequences present in the initial transcription products of rat liver chromatin.

E Pays
PMCID: PMC1164894  PMID: 921747

Abstract

At low ionic strength and with a low exogenous RNA polymerase/DNA ratio, rat liver chromatin directs the synthesis in vitro of RNA sequences rich in double-stranded segments. All the transcripts contain at least one double-stranded sequence. Most of the double-stranded segments are formed by intramolecular base-pairing of inverted complementary sequences separated by a single-stranded loop. They are heterogeneous in size, 35-45% of them being more than 80 nucleotides long. They contain 61-64% G+C, whether synthesized by rat liver RNA polymerase (form B) or Escherichia coli RNA polymerase. The largest double-stranded sequences are found in the largest transcripts, and are the most thermostable. The fidelity of base-matching is better in double-stranded transcripts synthesized on rat liver chromatin by homologous polymerase than in those synthesized on it by a bacterial polymerase, or in those synthesized by either of the two polymerases on pure DNA.

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