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chirality in dna

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henryk.cesnolovic ▴ 20

Hello,

I have to find chirality in DNA. Central atom is C3'. What are other 3 atoms?

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Do you mean 4 atoms?

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I have dna cif files. So, I have to find chiral volume in nucleic acid. For this I need 4 atoms. One of these is C3' and it's central.

ADD REPLY • link 8.5 years ago by henryk.cesnolovic ▴ 20

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This doesn't seem like a bioinformatics question...

ADD REPLY • link 8.5 years ago by WouterDeCoster 47k

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Modelling the 3-dimensional structure of biomolecules with atomic resolution is nowadays done with computers.

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score 1 · Answer 1 · 2016-05-18

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piet ★ 1.9k

Chirality is a key concept in organic chemistry. Please read a beginners text book on organic chemistry and make yourself familiar with the numbering of C atoms in nucleosides.

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