Cover. Unusual example of Au3+ binding within an accessible G-C base pair of the duplex form of the HIV-1 Dimerization Initiation Site. The coordination distances imply that G(N1) is deprotonated. For further details see the paper by Ennifar et al. in this issue [Nucleic Acids Res. (2003) 31, 2671--2682].
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