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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Jun 11.
Published in final edited form as: Chem Phys Lett. 2007 Jan 26;434(1-3):133–138. doi: 10.1016/j.cplett.2006.12.017

Table IV.

Atomic charges estimated by Merz-Kollman analysis [18] of atoms contributing to the hydrogen bonds between the two single-strands for B-form double-strands. The average value means the average for all oxygen, nitrogen or hydrogen atoms contributing the hydrogen bonds between single-strands. It is noted that the results for A-form double-strand are listed for RNA-RNA, because A-form is more stable than B-form for only RNA-RNA.

PNA-RNA LNA-LNA RNA-DNA LNA-DNA PNA-DNA
O(C)…H-N(G) −0.71, 0.55, −1.06 −0.61, 0.50, −1.02 −0.59, 0.46, −0.91 −0.61, 0.53, −1.05 −0.59, 0.46, −0.99
N(C)…H-N(G) −0.70, 0.42, −0.76 −0.64, 0.38, −0.72 −0.69, 0.37, −0.66 −0.65, 0.43, −0.78 −0.69, 0.47, −0.82
N-H(C)…O(G) −0.94, 0.51, −0.57 −0.86, 0.45, −0.54 −0.90, 0.47, −0.54 −0.94, 0.49, −0.56 −0.90, 0.47, −0.55
N(A)…H-N(T) −0.96, 0.51, −0.87 −1.01, 0.42, −0.55 −0.52, 0.31, −0.39 −0.92, 0.56, −0.76 −1.65, 0.93, −1.23
N-H(A)…O(T) −0.85, 0.46, −0.57 −0.91, 0.44, −0.51 −0.64, 0.32, −0.47 −0.77, 0.40, −0.51 −0.87, 0.45, −0.52
N-H(G)…O(C) −0.99, 0.47, −0.61 −1.02, 0.50, −0.57 −0.97, 0.47, −0.57 −1.02, 0.48, −0.62 −0.95, 0.43, −0.57
N-H(G)…N(C) −0.81, 0.51, −0.83 −0.89, 0.47, −0.63 −0.75, 0.43, −0.66 −0.84, 0.53, −0.82 −0.85, 0.49, −0.70
O(G)…H-N(C) −0.55, 0.49, −0.93 −0.56, 0.45, −0.85 −0.53, 0.41, −0.78 −0.58, 0.49, −0.91 −0.56, 0.45, −0.82
average −0.81, 0.49, −0.78 −0.81, 0.45, −0.67 −0.70, 0.41, −0.62 −0.79, 0.49, −0.75 −0.88, 0.52, −0.78


LNA-RNA PNA-LNA PNA-PNA DNA-DNA RNA-RNA

O(C)…H-N(G) −0.61, 0.51, −1.02 −0.69, 0.50, −1.02 −0.61, 0.48, −0.98 −0.54, 0.45, −0.86 −0.58, 0.50, −1.06
N(C)…H-N(G) −0.66, 0.44, −0.81 −0.72, 0.47, −0.80 −0.65, 0.40, −0.74 −0.56, 0.34, −0.59 −0.65, 0.47, −0.92
N-H(C)…O(G) −0.91, 0.48, −0.59 −0.88, 0.47, −0.54 −0.93, 0.51, −0.57 −0.83, 0.44, −0.54 −0.96, 0.50, −0.60
N(A)…H-N(T) −1.59, 1.03, −1.31 −0.87, 0.23, −0.30 −1.28, 0.57, −0.64 −0.98, 0.66, −0.55 −1.02, 0.41, −0.33
N-H(A)…O(T) −0.94, 0.51, −0.63 −0.93, 0.44, −0.49 −0.82, 0.42, −0.54 −0.49, 0.29, −0.54 −0.43, 0.29, −0.43
N-H(G)…O(C) −1.03, 0.49, −0.60 −1.01, 0.50, −0.66 −1.14, 0.58, −0.67 −0.90, 0.43, −0.55 −1.05, 0.50, −0.56
N-H(G)…N(C) −0.92, 0.56, −0.83 −0.81, 0.47, −0.73 −0.97, 0.54, −0.75 −0.72, 0.46, −0.68 −0.76, 0.38, −0.55
O(G)…H-N(C) −0.60, 0.51, −0.94 −0.58, 0.46, −0.87 −0.58, 0.49, −0.90 −0.55, 0.45, −0.85 −0.57, 0.51, −0.95
average −0.91, 0.57, −0.84 −0.81, 0.44, −0.68 −0.87, 0.50, −0.72 −0.70, 0.44, −0.65 −0.75, 0.45, −0.68