A left-handed supramolecular assembly around a right-handed screw axis in the crystal structure of homo-DNA

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Pallan, Pradeep S.
Lubini, Paolo
Egli, Martin [1 ]
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[1] Vanderbilt Univ, Dept Biochem, Sch Med, Nashville, TN 37232 USA
[2] Alta Scuola Pedag, CH-6600 Locarno, Switzerland
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10.1039/b614983a
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O6 [化学];
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0703 ;
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Duplexes of homo-DNA, a hexose analogue of DNA and autonomous pairing system, exhibit unusual conformational features, and in the crystal structure create a unique double-helical supramolecular motif whose main characteristic is a handedness that is opposite to that of the underlying crystallographic symmetry.
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页码:1447 / 1449
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