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260d
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CRYSTAL STRUCTURE OF THE SELF-COMPLEMENTARY 5'-PURINE START DECAMER D(GCACGCGTGC) IN THE A-DNA CONFORMATION-PART II
Overview
The crystal structure of the alternating 5'-purine start decamer, d(GCGCGCGCGC) was found to be in the left-handed Z-DNA conformation., Inasmuch as the A.T base pair is known to resist Z-DNA formation, we, substituted A.T base pairs in the dyad-related positions of the decamer, duplex. The alternating self-complementary decamer d(GCACGCGTGC), crystallizes in a different hexagonal space group, P6(1)22, with very, different unit cell dimensions a = b = 38.97 and c = 77.34 A compared with, the all-G.C alternating decamer. The A.T-containing decamer has one strand, in the asymmetric unit, and because it is isomorphous to some other A-DNA, decamers it was considered also to be right-handed. The structure was, refined, starting with the atomic coordinates of the A-DNA decamer, d(GCGGGCCCGC), by use of 2491 unique reflections out to 1.9-A resolution., The refinement converged to an R value of 18.6% for a total of 202, nucleotide atoms and 32 water molecules. This research further, demonstrates that A.T base pairs not only resist the formation of Z-DNA, but can also assist the formation of A-DNA by switching the helix, handedness when the oligomer starts with a 5'-purine; also, the length of, the inner Z-DNA stretch (d(CG)n) is reduced from an octamer to a tetramer., It may be noted that these oligonucleotide properties are in crystals and, not necessarily in solutions.
About this Structure
260D is a Protein complex structure of sequences from [1]. Full crystallographic information is available from OCA.
Reference
Crystal structure of the self-complementary 5'-purine start decamer d(GCACGCGTGC) in the A-DNA conformation. II., Ban C, Sundaralingam M, Biophys J. 1996 Sep;71(3):1222-7. PMID:8873996
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