Refined crystal structure of an octanucleotide duplex with I.T. mismatched base pairs.
Cruse, W.B., Aymani, J., Kennard, O., Brown, T., Jack, A.G., Leonard, G.A.(1989) Nucleic Acids Res 17: 55-72
- PubMed: 2911488
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/17.1.55
- Primary Citation of Related Structures:
1D90 - PubMed Abstract:
The structure of the synthetic deoxyoctamer d(GGIGCTCC) has been determined by single crystal X-ray diffraction techniques to a resolution of 1.7A. The sequence crystallises in space group P6(1), with unit cell dimensions a = b = 45.07, c = 45.49A. The refinement converged with a crystallographic residual R = 0.14 and the location of 81 solvent molecules. The octamer forms an A-DNA duplex with 6 Watson-Crick (G.C) base pairs and 2 inosine-thymine (I.T) pairs. Refinement of the structure shows it to be essentially isomorphous with that reported for d(GGGGCTCC) with the mispairs adopting a "wobble" conformation. Conformational parameters and base stacking interactions are compared to those for the native duplex d(GGGGCCCC) and other similar sequences. A rationale for the apparent increased crystal packing efficiency and lattice stability of the I.T octamer is given.
Organizational Affiliation:
University Chemical Laboratory, Cambridge, UK.