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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Oct 24.
Published in final edited form as: J Am Chem Soc. 2012 Oct 11;134(42):17643–17652. doi: 10.1021/ja307102g

Figure 1.

Figure 1

(A) Proposed ‘base switch’ showing flipping of a steric blockade from the minor to the major groove; steric occlusion in the minor groove prevents siRNA-PKR interaction in transit and major groove accommodation of the steric blockade allows siRNA-protein interactions in the RISC. (B) Proposed base pairs of the 8-alkoxyAs.