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Ricardo M F Leal1, Susana C M Teixeira, Matthew P Blakeley, Edward P Mitchell, V Trevor Forsyth.
Abstract
The LADI-III diffractometer at the Institut Laue-Langevin has been used to carry out a preliminary neutron crystallographic study of the self-complementary DNA oligonucleotide d(AGGGGCCCCT)(2) in the A conformation. The results demonstrate the viability of a full neutron crystallographic analysis with the aim of providing enhanced information on the ion-water networks that are known to be important in stabilizing A-DNA. This is the first account of a single-crystal neutron diffraction study of A-DNA. The study was carried out with the smallest crystal used to date for a neutron crystallographic study of a biological macromolecule.Entities:
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Year: 2009 PMID: 19255472 PMCID: PMC2650452 DOI: 10.1107/S1744309109002668
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Acta Crystallogr Sect F Struct Biol Cryst Commun ISSN: 1744-3091