2xy7

Crystal structure of a salicylic aldehyde base in the pre-insertion site of fragment DNA polymerase I from Bacillus stearothermophilus

spinqualitylabelsall models 2xy7, resolution 3.05Å Show:Asymmetric Unit Biological Assembly Drag the structure with the mouse to rotate   Export Animated Image   Print3D Structural highlights 2xy7 is a 3 chain structure with sequence from Geobacillus stearothermophilus and Synthetic construct. Full crystallographic information is available from OCA. For a guided tour on the structure components use FirstGlance. Method: X-ray diffraction, Resolution 3.05Å Ligands: FRU, GLC, PRD_900003, SAY, SO4 Resources: FirstGlance, OCA, PDBe, RCSB, PDBsum, ProSAT Function E1C9K5_GEOSE Publication Abstract from PubMed The universal genetic code relies on two hydrogen-bonded Watson-Crick base pairs that can form 64 triplet codons. This places a limit on the number of amino acids that can be encoded, which has motivated efforts to create synthetic base pairs that are orthogonal to the natural ones. An additional base pair would result in another 61 triplet codons. Artificial organic base pairs have been described in enzymatic incorporation studies, and inorganic T-Hg-T and C-Ag-C base pairs have been reported to form in primer extension studies. Here, we demonstrate a metal base pair that is fully orthogonal and can be replicated, and can even be amplified by polymerase chain reaction in the presence of the canonical pairs dA:dT and dG:dC. Crystal structures of a dS-Cu-dS base pair inside a polymerase show that reversible chemistry is possible directly inside the polymerase, which enables the efficient copying of the inorganic crosslink. The results open up the possibility of replicating and amplifying artificial inorganic DNA nanostructures by extending the genetic alphabet. Reversible bond formation enables the replication and amplification of a crosslinking salen complex as an orthogonal base pair.,Kaul C, Muller M, Wagner M, Schneider S, Carell T Nat Chem. 2011 Aug 28;3(10):794-800. doi: 10.1038/nchem.1117. PMID:21941252 From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine. See Also DNA polymerase 3D structures

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