title: Characteristics of nucleic acids.
abstract: This appendix is a compilation of information from Current Protocols in Molecular Biology (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.) and provides information about the major nucleoside/nucleotide constituents and structures for A-, B-, and Z-DNA. Tables and figures provide (1) experimentally useful properties of the nucleoside/nucleotide building blocks; (2) chemical structures of the nucleosides; (3) aspects of nucleotide stereochemistry that are important to an understanding of base pairing and secondary structure; (4) alternative (non-Watson-Crick) base pairings; and (5) the three best characterized helix structures for DNA: A-, B-, and Z-DNA.
authors.affiliation: Purdue University, West Lafayette, USA.
authors.forename: D E
authors.initials: DE
authors.lastname: Bergstrom
mesh_terms: D043542:DNA, Z-Form / Q000737:chemistry; D009690:Nucleic Acid Conformation; D009696:Nucleic Acids / Q000737:chemistry*; D009711:Nucleotides / Q000737:chemistry
chemical_list: D043542:DNA, Z-Form; D009696:Nucleic Acids; D009711:Nucleotides