“…Since the circular dichroism of L5, LI 8, and L25 was undetectable from 240 to 305 nm, a mean nucleotide molecular weight of 322 was used for the 5S RNA, whether free or bound, throughout this region. For the calculation of CD spectra from 215 to 240 nm, mean residue weights for L5, L18, L25, L5-5S RNA, L18-5S RNA, L25-5S RNA, and L5, LI 8, L25-5S RNA were taken to be 113, 109, 114, 197, 227, 231, and 162, respectively, on the basis of amino acid and nucleotide composition (Chen & Ehrke, 1976;Brosius et al, 1975;Dovgas et al, 1975;Brownlee et al, 1967).…”