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| <tr id='resources'><td class="sblockLbl"><b>Resources:</b></td><td class="sblockDat"><span class='plainlinks'>[https://proteopedia.org/fgij/fg.htm?mol=481d FirstGlance], [http://oca.weizmann.ac.il/oca-bin/ocaids?id=481d OCA], [https://pdbe.org/481d PDBe], [https://www.rcsb.org/pdb/explore.do?structureId=481d RCSB], [https://www.ebi.ac.uk/pdbsum/481d PDBsum], [https://prosat.h-its.org/prosat/prosatexe?pdbcode=481d ProSAT]</span></td></tr> | | <tr id='resources'><td class="sblockLbl"><b>Resources:</b></td><td class="sblockDat"><span class='plainlinks'>[https://proteopedia.org/fgij/fg.htm?mol=481d FirstGlance], [http://oca.weizmann.ac.il/oca-bin/ocaids?id=481d OCA], [https://pdbe.org/481d PDBe], [https://www.rcsb.org/pdb/explore.do?structureId=481d RCSB], [https://www.ebi.ac.uk/pdbsum/481d PDBsum], [https://prosat.h-its.org/prosat/prosatexe?pdbcode=481d ProSAT]</span></td></tr> |
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| == Publication Abstract from PubMed ==
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| A huge variety of chemically modified oligonucleotide derivatives has been synthesized for possible antisense applications. One such derivative, hexitol nucleic acid (HNA), is a DNA analogue containing the standard nucleoside bases, but with a phosphorylated 1',5'-anhydrohexitol backbone. Hexitol nucleic acids are some of the strongest hybridizing antisense compounds presently known, but HNA duplexes are even more stable. We present here the first high-resolution structure of a double helical nucleic acid with all sugars being hexitols. Although designed to have a restricted conformational flexibility, the hexitol oligomer h(GTGTACAC) is able to crystallize in two different double helical conformations. Both structures display a high x-displacement, normal Watson-Crick base pairing, similar base stacking patterns, and a very deep major groove together with a minor groove with increased hydrophobicity. One of the conformations displays a major groove which is wide enough to accommodate a second HNA double helix resulting in the formation of a double helix of HNA double helices. Both structures show most similarities with the A-type helical structure, the anhydrohexitol chair conformation thereby acting as a good mimic for the furanose C3'-endo conformation observed in RNA. As compared to the quasi-linear structure of homo-DNA, the axial position of the base in HNA allows efficient base stacking and hence double helix formation.
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| Crystal structure of double helical hexitol nucleic acids.,Declercq R, Van Aerschot A, Read RJ, Herdewijn P, Van Meervelt L J Am Chem Soc. 2002 Feb 13;124(6):928-33. PMID:11829600<ref>PMID:11829600</ref>
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| From MEDLINE®/PubMed®, a database of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.<br>
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