A-DNA
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right|200px|thumb|alt="The A-DNA structure"|The A-DNA structure.
Research
55,156 papers- Lab-on-a-DNA origami: nanoengineered single-molecule platforms.Chemical communications (Cambridge, England) · 2023
- C-B-A Test of DNA Force Fields.ACS omega · 2023
- A packing for A-form DNA in an icosahedral virus.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2019
- DNA adenine methylation in eukaryotes: Enzymatic mark or a form of DNA damage?BioEssays : news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology · 2021
- Understanding B-DNA to A-DNA transition in the right-handed DNA helix: Perspective from a local to global transition.Progress in biophysics and molecular biology · 2017
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- Structure
- Comparison geometries of the most common DNA forms
- A/B intermediates
- Biological function
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right|200px|thumb|alt="The A-DNA structure"|The A-DNA structure.
A-DNA is one of the possible double helical structures which DNA can adopt. A-DNA is thought to be one of three biologically active double helical structures along with B-DNA and Z-DNA. It is a right-handed double helix fairly similar to the more common B-DNA form, but with a shorter, more compact helical structure whose base pairs are not perpendicular to the helix-axis as in B-DNA. It was discovered by Rosalind Franklin, who also named the A and B forms. She showed that DNA is driven into the A form when under dehydrating conditions. Such conditions are commonly used to form crystals, and many DNA crystal structures are in the A form. The same helical conformation occurs in double-stranded RNAs, and in DNA-RNA hybrid double helices.