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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Feb 21.
Published in final edited form as: Biochemistry. 2012 Feb 9;51(7):1486–1499. doi: 10.1021/bi201794x

Table 1.

Structural parameters of adducts that characterize opposite orientations in S and R stereoisomers.a

B[c]Ph-N6-dA B[a]P-N6-dA DB[a,l]P-N6-dA Unmodified

R S R S R S
Buckle (°) −30.5 (7.7) 43.4 (8.2) −36 (7.5) 36.4 (8.1) −26.4 (7.9) 28.2 (7.5) 4.4 (11.1)
Propeller (°) 25.1 (8.5) −36 (10.0) 36.4 (9.5) −48.2 (12.5) 21.4 (8.9) −24.5 (7.6) −6.8 (9.1)
α′ (°) −11.6 (8.9) 11.5 (9.9) −26.4 (8.8) 18.4 (10.4) −13.8 (8.1) 13.3 (8.1) N/A
β′ (°) 101.5 (8.1) −94.9 (10.1) 101.2 (9.9) −106.7 (11.5) 103.0 (7.5) −100.0 (7.5) N/A
ε′ (°) −62.0 (5.0) 60.4 (5.1) −59.9 (5.2) −57.8 (5.9) −62.7(4.9) 61.5 (5.3) N/A
δ′ (°) 21.1 (6.6) −20.1 (8.3) N/A N/A 24.2 (6.2) −23.3 (6.4) N/A
a

See Figure 1, A and B, for definitions of α ′, β ′, ε′ and δ′. Values given are ensemble averages for the last 90 ns of the MD simulations. Standard deviations are given in parentheses. Helicoidal parameters are defined in Figure 1C. N/A, not applicable.