Intramolecular flexibility of DNA bases in adenine-thymine and guanine- cytosine Watson-Crick base pairs

Journal of Molecular Structure

Volumn 477, Issue 1-3, 1999, Pages 15-21

  Shishkin, Oleg V ^a   Šponer, Jiŕí ^b   Hobza, Pavel ^b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR SINGLE CRYSTALS   (Ukraine)

^b J HEYROVSKÝ INSTITUTE OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Ab initio; Conformational flexibility; Nucleobases; Watson Crick base pairs

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; CYTOSINE; DNA; GUANINE; THYMINE;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; DNA CONFORMATION; DNA RECOMBINATION; DNA STRUCTURE; GEOMETRY; HYDROGEN BOND; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR MODEL; REDUCTION;

EID: 0033574127     PISSN: 00222860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-2860(98)00603-6     Document Type: Article

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