Preferred Phosphodiester Conformations in Nucleic Acids. A Virtual Bond Torsion Potential to Estimate Lone-Pair Interactions in a Phosphodiester

Srinivasan, AR and Yathindra, N and Rao, VSR and Prakash, S (1980) Preferred Phosphodiester Conformations in Nucleic Acids. A Virtual Bond Torsion Potential to Estimate Lone-Pair Interactions in a Phosphodiester. In: Biopolymers, 19 (1). pp. 165-171.

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Abstract

The lone-pair orbital interactions arising in a phosphodiester are incorporated into semiempirical conformational energy calculations using a unifold "torsional potential" around the virtual bond linking the ester oxygen atoms. The results explain the observed experimental data better than other methods.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	Biopolymers
Publisher:	John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Additional Information:	The copyright belongs to John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Department/Centre:	Division of Biological Sciences > Molecular Biophysics Unit
Date Deposited:	08 Dec 2005
Last Modified:	19 Sep 2010 04:21
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/4280

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