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. 1973 Oct;135(2):349–351. doi: 10.1042/bj1350349

A spectrophotometric study of the secondary structure of precursor ribosomal ribonucleic acid from Krebs ascites-tumour cells

A A Hadjiolov 1,*, R A Cox 1
PMCID: PMC1165829  PMID: 4764266

Abstract

The spectrophotometric analysis of 45S precursor rRNA shows that it contains more G and C residues than does mature 28S or 18S rRNA. The helical content and the length of double-helical segments in 45S and 28S rRNA are similar.

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