Nucleic Acids Research, 1982, Vol. 10, No. 18 5599-5604
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MOLECULAR BIOLOGY |
Correlation between glycosyl torsion angle and sugar ring pucker does not always exist
Carnegie Laboratory of Physics, University of Dundee Dundee DD1 4HN, UK
Received June 26, 1982. Accepted August 19, 1982.
A survey of the conformational parameters of deoxypyrimidine nucleosides and nucleotides shows that the correlation between glycosyl torsion angle and sugar pucker, which has often been considered to be well-established, does not always exist. This may be of significance when interactions between DNA and other molecules are considered.