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  • Title: Analysis of intrasugar interproton NOESY cross-peaks as an aid to determine sugar geometries in DNA fragments.
    Author: Chary KV, Modi S.
    Journal: FEBS Lett; 1988 Jun 20; 233(2):319-25. PubMed ID: 3384096.
    Abstract:
    A systematic analysis of the conformation of deoxyribofuranose rings in DNA fragments has been described using two-dimensional nuclear Overhauser effect spectroscopy (2D NOESY). The approach is based on the interpretation of the intrasugar proton-proton distances which can be estimated using a low-mixing-time pure-absorption mode w1-scaled NOESY spectrum. The experimental distances are compared with the theoretical values calculated as a function of pseudorotation phase angle (P) describing the sugar geometries. The approach can be used as a complementary aid to J couplings for establishing sugar conformations in individual nucleotide units of DNA fragments. Using this strategy on d-ACATCGATGT, we observed that individual nucleotides exhibit O4'-endo sugar pucker. The results rule out possibilities of the existence of a fast equilibrium (on the NMR time scale) between C2'-endo (or S-domain) and C3'-endo (or N-domain) sugar puckers.
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