- Most common DNA conformation in vivo
- Narrower, more elongated helix than A.
- Wide major groove easily accessible to proteins
- Narrow minor groove
- Favored conformation at high water concentrations (hydration of minor groove seems to favor B-form)
- Base pairs nearly perpendicular to helix axis
- Sugar pucker C2'-endo
Start the tour with this view. Now look at this space filling view. reset; slab off; rotate z -140; rotate y -7; rotate x 71; zoom 144; select all; hbonds off; set bonds off; set bondmode and; select hetero; spacefill off; set hetero off; dots off; select dna; spacefill on; wireframe off; color magenta; select backbone; color yellow.
The backbone is yellow and the bases are magenta.
You can compare it with the other DNA forms by
You may include any references to papers as in: the use of JSmol in Proteopedia [1] or to the article describing Jmol [2] to the rescue.
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This is a sample scene created with SAT to , and another to make of the protein. You can make your own scenes on SAT starting from scratch or loading and editing one of these sample scenes.
