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Conformations of the sugar-phosphate backbone in helical DNA crystal structures

✍ Scribed by Bohdan Schneider; Stephen Neidle; Helen M. Berman

Publisher
Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
Year
1997
Tongue
English
Weight
274 KB
Volume
42
Category
Article
ISSN
0006-3525

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✦ Synopsis

The DNA backbone geometry was analyzed for 96 crystal structures of oligodeoxynucleotides. The ranges and mean values of the torsion angles for the observed subclasses of the A-, B-, and Z-DNA conformational types were determined by analyzing distributions of the torsion angles and scattergrams relating pairs of angles.

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