DNA structure and recognition /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Neidle, Stephen
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford, Eng. ; New York : IRL Press at Oxford University Press, [1994]
Edition:First edition.
Series:In focus (Oxford, England)
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Methods for studying DNA structure
  • X-ray diffraction methods for structural analysis
  • NMR methods for studying DNA structure and dynamics
  • Molecular modeling and simulation of DNA
  • Chemical and enzymatic probes of structure
  • Sources of structural data
  • Building-blocks of DNA
  • Base pairing
  • Sugar puckers
  • Conformations about the glycosidic bond
  • Backbone torsion angles and correlated flexibility
  • DNA structure as observed in fibres and crystals
  • Structural fundamentals
  • Helical parameters
  • Morphological features of base pairs.
  • Polynucleotide structures from fibre diffraction studies
  • Classic DNA structures
  • DNA polymorphism in fibres
  • B-DNA oligonucleotide structure as seen in crystallographic analyses
  • Dickerson-Drew duodecamer
  • Sequence-dependent features
  • Other B-DNA oligonucleotide structures
  • A-DNA oligonucleotide crystal structures
  • A-form octanucleotides
  • A-form oligonucleotides in solution? Crystal packing effects
  • Z-DNA left handed DNA
  • Z-DNA hexanucleotide crystal structure
  • Structural features
  • Z-DNA helix
  • Other Z-DNA structures.
  • Biological aspects of Z-DNA
  • Bent DNA
  • DNA periodicity in solution
  • Tracts and bending
  • Structure of poly- and oligo(dA-dT)
  • DNA-DNA recognition: non-standard DNA structures
  • Mismatches in DNA
  • General aspects
  • Purine: purine mismatches
  • Alkylation mismatches
  • Multi-stranded DNA helices
  • Triple helix
  • Guanine quadruplexes
  • Principles of ligand-DNA recognition
  • DNA-water interactions
  • DNA-drug recognition
  • Non-covalent binding
  • Covalent bonding
  • Principles of protein-DNA recognition
  • Major groove interactions-the α-helix as the recognition element.
  • Zinc finger and other recognition modes
  • Minor groove recognition
  • DNA conformation and drug/protein recognition
  • Detailed aspects of DNA structure.