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The majority of the base pairs are clustered into regular secondary structure helices, and the majority of the helices are contained within the boundaries of another helix, forming large cooperative sets of nested helices.
In th*/e "Matrix of All Possible Helices" plot http://www.rna.icmb.utexas.edu/CSI/2STR/, the same RNA sequence is extended along the X- and Y-axes, with all potential helices that are comprised of at least four consecutive Watson-Crick (G:C and A:U) or G:U base pairs shown below the diagonal line.
Secondary-structure prediction using the Jpred method [ 19], with a multiple alignment of the KilA-N domain used as the input, pointed to an α + β fold with four conserved strands and at least two conserved helices.
One interesting facet is that each of these three genes or pseudogenes contains three hydrophobic regions that could form transmembrane helices.
For example, the S. cerevisiae phenylalanine tRNA sequence, with a length of 76 nucleotides, has 37 possible helices (as defined above); only four of these are in the crystal structure.