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IT has been shown by Gellert, Lipsett and Davies1 that guanylic acid will form a gel under certain pH conditions and they were able to draw fibres from gels of the disodium salt of 3′-guanylic acid and of the free acid, 5′-guanosine monophosphate. From X-ray diffraction studies of these fibres the foregoing workers concluded that they consisted of a helical arrangement of the ribose nucleotides.
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IBALL, J., MORGAN, C. & WILSON, H. Fibres of Guanine Nucleosides and Nucleotides. Nature 199, 688–689 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1038/199688b0
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