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A non-canonical base pairing is when the base pairing occurs other than the standard pairs (guanine-cytosine and adenine-thymine).

It commonly occurs in the secondary structure of RNA (e.g. pairing of G with U), and in tRNA recognition. It is typically less stable than the normal base pairs.

See also

• Wobble base pair
• Hoogsteen base pair

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