THE SECONDARY STRUCTURE OF REOVIRUS RNA
- 1 May 1963
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Vol. 49 (5) , 707-714
- https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.49.5.707
Abstract
Reovirus contains a larger complement of genetic material than is present in any other RNA virus thus far studied, be it bacterial, plant, or animal. The RNA of reovirus has a number of characteristics usually associated with DNA; its base ratios are complementary and it behaves as if it were double-stranded. If it is indeed double-stranded, then reovirus nucleic acid is the first RNA to be found in nature having this unusual structure. The RNA of wound tumor virus appears to have a similar structure.Keywords
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