AMBER Archive (2003)

Subject: Re: crystal structure of DNA/RNA homopolymers

From: Ioana Cozmuta (ioana_at_nas.nasa.gov)
Date: Mon Jan 27 2003 - 13:54:18 CST

Hi,

I am sorry I was not explicit enough. I meant structures of
poly d[A] or poly d[G] or poly [A] or poly [U] ... That's why I used
the term homopolymers and I used the / sign as an alternative d or r type
of nucleic acids polymers...

Thank you,
Ioana

On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, David A. Case wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 27, 2003, Ioana Cozmuta wrote:
> >
> > I was wondering if anyone knows if there are crystal structures available
> > of DNA/RNA homopolymers and if yes, where one can retrieve them from?
> ^^^^ (hetero?)
> > If not even some references to some papers of people that succesfully
> > modeled these kind of systems.
>
> Try a google search on "dna/rna hybrid". First hit lists 68 known structures
> of this sort.
>
> ..dac
>
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