Crystal structure of a peptide nucleic acid (PNA) duplex at 1.7 angstrom resolution

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Rasmussen, H
Kastrup, JS
Nielsen, JN
Nielsen, JM
Nielsen, PE
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[1] ROYAL DANISH SCH PHARM, DEPT MED CHEM, DK-2100 COPENHAGEN 0, DENMARK
[2] UNIV COPENHAGEN, PANUM INST,DEPT MED BIOCHEM & GENET, CTR BIOMOL RECOGNIT,BIOCHEM LAB B, DK-2200 COPENHAGEN N, DENMARK
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10.1038/nsb0297-98
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Q5 [生物化学]; Q7 [分子生物学];
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071010 ; 081704 ;
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The crystal structure of a PNA duplex reveals both a right- and a left-handed helix in the unit cell. The helices are wide (28 Angstrom), large pitched (18 bp) with the base pairs perpendicular to the helix axis, thereby demonstrating that PNA besides adapting to oligonucleotide partners also has a unique structure by itself.
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