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Plant Science Letters

Volume 5, Issue 6, December 1975, Pages 379-385
Plant Science Letters

Occurrence of palindromic sequences in wheat DNA

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Abstract

The study of the instantaneously renaturing fraction of wheat DNA provides some evidence for the occurrence of palindromic sequences: after thermal or alkaline denaturation, this fraction elutes from hydroxyapatite as containing double-stranded structures, instantaneously reforming by monomolecular reaction that is characteristic of the hairpin-like conformation. Typical hairpin-like structures are clearly seen on electron micrographs of denatured wheat DNA molecules.

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