Unraveling unbreakable hairpins: characterizing RNA secondary structures that are persistent after dinucleotide shuffling

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FIGURE 3.
FIGURE 3.

(A) A Venn diagram representation of the shared features of RNA hairpins. The majority of unbreakable RNA hairpins contain a C[UUCG]G loop and split in purines and pyrimidines. (B) The majority of unbreakable hairpins are located on the 22nd hairpin on 16S ribosomal RNAs.

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  1. RNA 31: 885-895