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Depending on their biological function, naturally occurring RNAs either display long, double-helical structures or they are globular, with short double-helical domains connected by single-stranded stretches. Double-helical domains can, in many cases, be predicted from primary nucleotide sequences and special computer algorithms have been developed for this purpose (864). Short double helices are found in tRNA (Chapter 15), in ribosomal RNAs (865–868), in the genes coding for the coat proteins of bacteriophages MS2 (869) and R17 (870), in globin mRNA (871), and probably in other mRNAs as well (872).
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Saenger, W. (1984). RNA Structure. In: Principles of Nucleic Acid Structure. Springer Advanced Texts in Chemistry. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5190-3_10
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