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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Dec 29.
Published in final edited form as: J Mol Biol. 2007 Sep 19;374(2):292–305. doi: 10.1016/j.jmb.2007.09.034

Table 3.

Hydrogen bonds between BP benzylic ring and adjacent base or backbone atoms

Sequence context Hydrogen bond Occupancy (%)
CG*C (BP)O7-HO7···O2(C17) 85
(BP)O8-HO8···O2(C7) 54
(BP)O7-HO7···O4′(G18) 12
TG*T (BP)O7-HO7···O2(C17) 91
(BP)O8-HO8···O2(T7) 64
(BP)O9-HO9···O4′(A8) 18

Criteria for formation of hydrogen bonding: heavy atom–heavy atom distance <3.3 Å and donor-hydrogen-acceptor angle >140°.