The role of water structure in conformational changes of nucleic acids in ambient and high-pressure conditions

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 260, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 293-307

  Barciszewski, Jan ^a,d   Jurczak, Janusz ^b,c   Porowski, Sylwester ^d   Specht, Thomas ^e   Erdmann, Volker A ^e  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (Poland)

^b INSTITUTE OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^d INSTITUTE OF HIGH PRESSURE PHYSICS   (Poland)

^e FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Conformational changes; High pressure; Nucleic acids; Structure of water

Indexed keywords

CYTIDINE DERIVATIVE; DNA; NUCLEIC ACID;

BASE PAIRING; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DNA CONFORMATION; GEOMETRY; HYDROGEN BOND; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; WATER STRUCTURE;

DNA; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; NUCLEIC ACIDS; PRESSURE; WATER;

EID: 0033104772     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1432-1327.1999.00184.x     Document Type: Review

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