Revisiting the planarity of nucleic acid bases: Pyramidilization at glycosidic nitrogen in purine bases is modulated by orientation of glycosidic torsion

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 37, Issue 21, 2009, Pages 7321-7331

  Sychrovsky, Vladimir ^a   Foldynova trantirkova, Silvie ^b,c,d   Spackova, Nada ^e   Robeyns, Koen ^f   Van meervelt, Luc ^f   Blankenfeldt, Wulf ^g   Vokacova, Zuzana ^a   Sponer, Jiri ^e   Trantirek, Lukas ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY AND BIOCHEMISTRY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^d UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (Czech Republic)

^f Chemistry Department   (Belgium)

^g MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PHYSIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; GLYCOSIDE; NITROGEN; NUCLEIC ACID BASE; NUCLEOSIDE; NUCLEOTIDE; OLIGONUCLEOTIDE; PURINE; PYRIMIDINE; RNA; 2'-DEOXYADENOSINE; CARBOHYDRATE; DEOXYADENOSINE; DEOXYADENOSINE DERIVATIVE; DEOXYCYTIDINE; PURINE DERIVATIVE; PURINE NUCLEOSIDE; PURINE NUCLEOTIDE; PYRIMIDINE DERIVATIVE; PYRIMIDINE NUCLEOSIDE; PYRIMIDINE NUCLEOTIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL BOND; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; GENETIC MODEL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NUCLEIC ACID DATABASE; NUCLEIC ACID STRUCTURE; NUCLEIC ACID STRUCTURE, METABOLISM AND FUNCTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDILIZATION; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; SIMULATION; STRUCTURAL BIOINFORMATICS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SYSTEMATIC ERROR; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

CARBOHYDRATES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DEOXYADENOSINES; DEOXYCYTIDINE; NITROGEN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, BIOMOLECULAR; OLIGONUCLEOTIDES; PURINE NUCLEOSIDES; PURINE NUCLEOTIDES; PURINES; PYRIMIDINE NUCLEOSIDES; PYRIMIDINE NUCLEOTIDES; PYRIMIDINES;

EID: 75349114325     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkp783     Document Type: Article

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