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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Sep 25.
Published in final edited form as: Biochemistry. 2006 Apr 4;45(13):4141–4152. doi: 10.1021/bi052322r

FIGURE 6.

FIGURE 6

Ion coordination and packing interactions. (A) Coordination of cobalt hexamine ions (cyan and blue for Co3+ and N, respectively) and a chloride anion (large sphere in magenta) in the major groove of the A-ANA duplex. Selected residues are labeled, water molecules are red spheres and hydrogen bonds are dashed lines. (B) Example of a packing interaction in the A-ANA and A-FANA structures, involving terminal base pairs of a duplex (green bonds) and the sugar-phosphate backbone of a neighboring one (blue bonds). In the example shown here, the sugar moieties of residues T4 and 2′OMeA5 from an A-FANA1 decamer form a pseudo-base pair that stacks against the terminal C:G base pair from an A-FANA2 duplex.