Crystal structure of an intermolecular 2:1 complex between adenine and thymine. Evidence for both Hoogsteen and 'quasi-Watson-Crick' interactions

Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 3530-3533

  Chandrasekhar, Sosale ^a   Naik, Tangali R Ravikumar ^a   Nayak, Susanta K ^a   Row, Tayur N Guru ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

Adenine; Base pair; Hoogsteen; Thymine; Watson Crick; X ray diffraction

Indexed keywords

ADENINE; THYMINE;

ARTICLE; BASE PAIRING; CHEMICAL INTERACTION; COMPLEX FORMATION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLIZATION; DNA HELIX; HOOGSTEEN INTERACTION; QUASI WATSON CRICK INTERACTION; ROOM TEMPERATURE; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

ADENINE; BASE PAIRING; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DNA; TEMPERATURE; THYMINE;

EID: 77954215844     PISSN: 0960894X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bmcl.2010.04.131     Document Type: Article

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