Principles of Nucleic Acid Structure

New textbooks at all levels of chemistry appear with great regularity. Some fields like basic biochemistry, organic reaction mechanisms, and chemical ther­ modynamics are well represented by many excellent texts, and new or revised editions are published sufficiently often to keep up with progress i...

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Main Author: Saenger, Wolfram
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Springer New York 1984, 1984
Edition:1st ed. 1984
Series:Springer Advanced Texts in Chemistry
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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505 0 |a 1 Why Study Nucleotide and Nucleic Acid Structure? -- 2 Defining Terms for the Nucleic Acids -- 3 Methods: X-Ray Crystallography, Potential Energy Calculations, and Spectroscopy -- 4 Structures and Conformational Properties of Bases, Furanose Sugars, and Phosphate Groups -- 5 Physical Properties of Nucleotides: Charge Densities, pK Values, Spectra, and Tautomerism -- 6 Forces Stabilizing Associations Between Bases: Hydrogen Bonding and Base Stacking -- 7 Modified Nucleosides and Nucleotides; Nucleoside Di- and Triphosphates; Coenzymes and Antibiotics -- 8 Metal Ion Binding to Nucleic Acids -- 9 Polymorphism of DNA versus Structural Conservatism of RNA: Classification of A-, B-, and Z-Type Double Helices -- 10 RNA Structure -- 11 DNA Structure -- 12 Left-Handed, Complementary Double Helices — A Heresy? The Z-DNA Family -- 13 Synthetic, Homopolymer Nucleic Acids Structures -- 14 Hypotheses and Speculations: Side-by-Side Model, Kinky DNA, and ?Vertical? Double Helix -- 15 tRNA—A Treasury of Stereochemical Information -- 16 Intercalation -- 17 Water and Nucleic Acids -- 18 Protein-Nucleic Acid Interaction -- 19 Higher Organization of DNA -- References 
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520 |a New textbooks at all levels of chemistry appear with great regularity. Some fields like basic biochemistry, organic reaction mechanisms, and chemical ther­ modynamics are well represented by many excellent texts, and new or revised editions are published sufficiently often to keep up with progress in research. However, some areas of chemistry, especially many of those taught at the grad­ uate level, suffer from a real lack of up-to-date textbooks. The most serious needs occur in fields that are rapidly changing. Textbooks in these subjects usually have to be written by scientists actually involved in the research which is advancing the field. It is not often easy to persuade such individuals to set time aside to help spread the knowledge they have accumulated. Our goal, in this series, is to pinpoint areas of chemistry where recent progress has outpaced what is covered in any available textbooks, and then seek out and persuade experts in these fields to produce relatively concise but instructive introductions to their fields. These should serve the needs of one semester or one quarter graduate courses in chemistry and biochemistry. In some cases the availability of texts in active research areas should help stimulate the creation of new courses. CHARLES R. CANTOR New York Preface This monograph is based on a review on polynucleotide structures written for a book series in 1976