Base—base interactions in nucleic acids containing A—T base pairs
- 8 August 1983
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in FEBS Letters
- Vol. 159 (1-2) , 285-289
- https://doi.org/10.1016/0014-5793(83)80465-7
Abstract
The Watson—Crick type of base pairing is considered to be mandatory for the formation of duplex DNA. However, conformational calculations carried out in our laboratory, have shown that some combinations of backbone torsion angles and sugar pucker lead to duplexes with Hoogsteen type of base pairing also. Here we present the results of energy calculations performed on A—T containing doublet sequences in the D‐form with both Hoogsteen and Watson—Crick type of base pairing and the 3 viable models for the A—T containing polynucleotide duplex poly[d(A—T)].Keywords
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