The crystallographic study of left-handed Z-DNA d(CGCGCG)2 and thermine complexes crystallized at various temperatures and at various concentration of cations

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Volumn 368, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 382-387

  Ohishi, Hirofumi ^a   Odoko, Mamiko ^b   Zhou, Da Yang ^c   Tozuka, Yoshitaka ^a   Okabe, Nobuo ^b   Nakatani, Kazuhiko ^c   Ishida, Toshimasa ^a   Grzeskowiak, Kazmierz ^d  

^a OSAKA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^b KINKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

B Z transition; PA(2222); Polyamine; Thermine; X ray crystallography; Z DNA

Indexed keywords

CATION; DNA Z; MAGNESIUM ION; POLYAMINE; SPERMIDINE; THERMINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BINDING COMPETITION; CARCINOGENESIS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DNA STRUCTURE; HYDROGEN BOND; POLYAMINE METABOLISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

CATIONS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DNA, Z-FORM; ELECTROSTATICS; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACID CONFORMATION; POLYAMINES; STEREOISOMERISM; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 39549118908     PISSN: 0006291X     EISSN: 10902104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2008.01.092     Document Type: Article

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