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2. Abbrevations used: Me4NCl, Tetramethylammonium chloride; NOE, nuclear Overhauser effect; NOESY, two-dimensional nuclear Overhauser effect spectroscopy; COSY, correlated spectroscopy; WEFT, water eliminated Fourier transform; DANTE, delays alternating with nutations for tailored excitations; DSS, 4,4-dimethyM- silapentanesulphonic acid sodium salt
3. Collection of published 5S and 5.8S rRNA sequences and their precursors
4. Conformational Transitions in Viroids and Virusoids: Comparison of Results from Energy Minimization Algorithm and from Experimental Data
5. An experimentally-derived model for the secondary structure of the 16S ribosomal RNA from Escherichia coli