1ma8
From Proteopedia
A-DNA decamer GCGTA(UMS)ACGC with incorporated 2'-methylseleno-uridine
Overview
Selenium was incorporated into an oligodeoxynucleotide in the form of 2'-methylseleno-uridine (U(Se)). The X-ray crystal structure of the duplex left open bracket d(GCGTA)U(Se)d(ACGC) right open bracket (2) was determined by the multiwavelength anomalous dispersion (MAD) technique and refined to a resolution of 1.3 A, demonstrating that selenium can selectively substitute oxygen in DNA and that the resulting compounds are chemically stable. Since derivatization at the 2'-alpha-position with selenium does not affect the preference of the sugar for the C3'-endo conformation, this strategy is suitable for incorporating selenium into RNA. The availability of selenium-containing nucleic acids for crystallographic phasing offers an attractive alternative to the commonly used halogenated pyrimidines.
About this Structure
Full crystallographic information is available from OCA.
Reference
Covalent incorporation of selenium into oligonucleotides for X-ray crystal structure determination via MAD: proof of principle. Multiwavelength anomalous dispersion., Teplova M, Wilds CJ, Wawrzak Z, Tereshko V, Du Q, Carrasco N, Huang Z, Egli M, Biochimie. 2002 Sep;84(9):849-58. PMID:12458077 Page seeded by OCA on Sat May 3 00:49:12 2008
