Figure 1-6. The conformation of an RNA molecule.

Figure 1-6The conformation of an RNA molecule

(A) Nucleotide pairing between different regions of the same RNA polymer chain causes the molecule to adopt a distinctive shape. (B) The three-dimensional structure of an actual RNA molecule, from hepatitis delta virus, that catalyzes RNA strand cleavage. (B, based on A.R. Ferré D'Amaré, K. Zhou, and J.A. Doudna, Nature 395:567–574, 1998. © Macmillan Magazines Ltd.)

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