Figure 1
(a) The 16-mer DNA crystals and (b) the final structure of the double helix of the DNA segment. In (b) atoms are shown as follows: carbon, sky blue and blue for different DNA chains; phosphorus, orange; oxygen, red; nitrogen, dark blue. Nucleotides are labelled G, A, T and C and individual atoms are labelled in italics, with the nucleotide ID in parentheses. Ca2+(1), Ca2+(2) and Ca2+(3) all lie on a vertical threefold axis and have 1/3 occupancy each. (c) The 2D structure of the duplex of the DNA 16-mer [note that the numbering is as used in Huang et al. (2005) so that the sequence starts at nucleotide 2]. |