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Conservation of the Biological Activity of a Soluble Ribonucleic Acid

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PREVIOUS investigations1 carried out in one of our laboratories have shown that nucleic acids could be precipitated as quaternary ammonium salts, soluble in various organic solvents, and that they could be regenerated from these organic solutions as the sodium salts on addition of concentrated solutions of sodium chloride. This treatment does not affect the infectivity of tobacco mosaic virus ribonucleic acid (RNA)2.

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    Present address: Laboratoire de Chimie Biologique, Faculté des Sciences, Marseille

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  1. Laboratoire de Chimie Biologique, Faculté de Pharmacie, Strasbourg, France

    J. H. WEIL & J. P. EBEL

  2. Laboratoire de Biochimie, Fondation Curie, Paris

    R. MONIER

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WEIL, J., EBEL, J. & MONIER, R. Conservation of the Biological Activity of a Soluble Ribonucleic Acid. Nature 192, 169–170 (1961). https://doi.org/10.1038/192169a0

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