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Abstract
The non-natural pyrido[2,3-d]pyrimidine nucleoside F, which pairs preferentially with guanine (G) and adenine (A) within double-helical DNA, recognizes with high selectivity AT base pairs within triple-helical complexes. These observations suggest that F may exist in different tautomeric forms within double-helical and triple-helical complexes. Analysis of the base stacking properties of this extended ring system using two oligodeoxyribonucleotides containing terminal thymines and/or pyrido[2,3-d]pyrimidines bound to adjacent sites showed a decrease in free energy of binding in a triple-helical complex in the order (5'-3') TT > FT > TF > FF.Entities:
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Year: 1994 PMID: 8041626 PMCID: PMC308221 DOI: 10.1093/nar/22.13.2637
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Nucleic Acids Res ISSN: 0305-1048 Impact factor: 16.971