Local conformational variations observed in B-DNA crystals do not improve base stacking: Computational analysis of base stacking in a d(CATGGGCCCATG)2 B↔A intermediate crystal structure

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 28, Issue 24, 2000, Pages 4893-4902

  Poner, Jirí ^a,b   Florián, Jan ^c   Ng, Ho Leung ^d   Poner, Judit E ^a   Packová, Nad'a ^a,b  

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

^b INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (Czech Republic)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; CYTOSINE; DNA; DNA BASE; DOUBLE STRANDED DNA; GUANINE; THYMINE; WATER;

AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DISPERSION; DNA BASE COMPOSITION; DNA CONFORMATION; DNA SEQUENCE; DNA STRAND; DNA STRUCTURE; ELECTRICITY; ENERGY; GEOMETRY; HYDRATION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLARIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOLVATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

BASE COMPOSITION; BASE PAIRING; BASE SEQUENCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; DNA; ELECTROSTATICS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PLIABILITY; SOLVENTS; THERMODYNAMICS; WATER;

EID: 0034672031     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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