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Abstract
Mg2+ was shown to affect the conformation of rRNA over the range of 0.03-1.2M-KCl. The species studies were Escherichia coli S-rRNA and L-rRNA (the RNA moieties of the smaller and larger subribosomal particles respectively) and rabbits S-rRNA and L-rRNA. 2. The addition of Mg2+ to rRNA in reconstitution buffer (0.35M-KCl0.01M-Tris/HCl, pH7.2) at 20 degrees C let to an increase in bihelical secondary structure through the formation of additional (mainly A-U) base-pairs (e.g. an additional approx. 58 A-U base-pairs per molecule of E. coli S-rRNA as judged by u.v. difference spectrophotometry...Entities:
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Year: 1976 PMID: 797388 PMCID: PMC1164267 DOI: 10.1042/bj1600505
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Biochem J ISSN: 0264-6021 Impact factor: 3.857