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Binding of cations and the conformation of the phosphodiester linkage

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Contrary to CNDO results, ab initio SCF computations indicate that binding of Na+ and Mg++ to the phosphodiester linkage leaves unperturbed its preferences for a gg conformation about the P-Oester bonds.

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  1. Laboratoire de Biochimie Théorique associé au C.N.R.S., Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique, Paris

    Bernard Pullman, Nohad Gresh & Hélène Berthod

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Pullman, B., Gresh, N. & Berthod, H. Binding of cations and the conformation of the phosphodiester linkage. Theoret. Chim. Acta 40, 71–74 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00547914

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