3u89

Crystal structure of one turn of g/c rich b-dna revisited

spinqualitylabelsall models 3u89, resolution 0.96Å Show:Asymmetric Unit Biological Assembly Drag the structure with the mouse to rotate   Export Animated Image   Print3D Structural highlights 3u89 is a 1 chain structure. This structure supersedes the now removed PDB entry 3ggb. Full crystallographic information is available from OCA. For a guided tour on the structure components use FirstGlance. Ligands: MG Related: 3ggi, 3ggk Resources: FirstGlance, OCA, PDBe, RCSB, PDBsum, ProSAT Publication Abstract from PubMed Increasingly exact measurement of single crystal X-ray diffraction data offers detailed characterization of DNA conformation, hydration and electrostatics. However, instead of providing a more clear and unambiguous image of DNA, highly accurate diffraction data reveal polymorphism of the DNA atomic positions and conformation and hydration. Here we describe an accurate X-ray structure of B-DNA, painstakingly fit to a multistate model that contains multiple competing positions of most of the backbone and of entire base pairs. Two of ten base-pairs of CCAGGCCTGG are in multiple states distinguished primarily by differences in slide. Similarly, all the surrounding ions are seen to fractionally occupy discrete competing and overlapping sites. And finally, the vast majority of water molecules show strong evidence of multiple competing sites. Conventional resolution appears to give a false sense of homogeneity in conformation and interactions of DNA. In addition, conventional resolution yields an average structure that is not accurate, in that it is different from any of the multiple discrete structures observed at high resolution. Because base pair positional heterogeneity has not always been incorporated into model-building, even some high and ultrahigh-resolution structures of DNA do not indicate the full extent of conformational polymorphism. B-DNA structure is intrinsically polymorphic: even at the level of base pair positions.,Maehigashi T, Hsiao C, Kruger Woods K, Moulaei T, Hud NV, Dean Williams L Nucleic Acids Res. 2011 Dec 17. PMID:22180536 From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.

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