Hydrogen bonds controlling the structure type

Tertiary hydrogen bonds in the solution structure of transfer RNA.

The high resolution nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectra of hydrogen-bonded protons in four tRNAs have been studied at 270 MHz. The relative intensity of the resonances between -11 ppm and -15 ppm of Escherichia coli tRNA1-Va1 indicate that there are 26 plus or minus 3 protons, while only 20 are expected from secondary structure Watson-Crick hydrogen bonds inthe cloverleaf structure. Severa...

Hydrogen Bonds

Hydrogen Bonds Determining N,N-Diacylindigo Crystal Structure Conformations

The debate over C-H-0 hydrogen bonds lasted for many years before Taylor and Kennard surveyed the Cambridge Structural Database in 1982 and extracted strong statistical evidence in favor of such attractive interactions.' Further work by a number of other groups have concluded that although C-H*-0 bonds are much weaker than traditional hydrogen bonds (X-H-eX, where X = 0 or N) they are nonethele...

Energetics and cooperativity of tertiary hydrogen bonds in RNA structure.

Tertiary interactions that allow RNA to fold into intricate three-dimensional structures are being identified, but little is known about the thermodynamics of individual interactions. Here we quantify the tertiary structure contributions of individual hydrogen bonds in a "ribose zipper" motif of the recently crystallized Tetrahymena group I intron P4-P6 domain. The 2'-hydroxyls of P4-P6 nucleot...

Short hydrogen bonds in proteins.

Short hydrogen bonds are present in many chemical and biological systems. It is well known that these short hydrogen bonds are found in the active site of enzymes and aid enzyme catalysis. This study aims to systematically characterize all short hydrogen bonds from a nonredundant dataset of protein structures. The study has revealed that short hydrogen bonds are commonly found in proteins and a...