Abstract
Previous molecular mechanics calculations suggest that strands of peptide nucleic acids (PNAs) and complementary oligonucleotides form antiparallel duplexes stabilized by interresidue hydrogen bonds. In the computed structures, the amide carbonyl oxygen nearest the nucleobase (O7') forms an interresidue hydrogen bond with the backbone amide proton of the following residue, (n + 1)H1'. Of the 10 published two dimensional 1H NMR structures of a hexameric PNA.RNA heteroduplex. PNA(GAACTC).r(GAGUUC), 9 exhibit two to five potential interresidue hydrogen bonds. In our minimized average structure, created from the coordinates of these 10 NMR structures, three of the five possible interresidue hydrogen bond sites within the PNA backbone display the carbonyl oxygen (O7') and the amide proton (n + 1)H1' distances and N1'-H1'-(n - 1)O7' angles optimal for hydrogen bond formation. The finding of these interresidue hydrogen bonds supports the results of our previous molecular mechanics calculations.
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