First description of a triple DNA helix in a vacuum

Wednesday, April 18, 2012 - 15:31 in Biology & Nature

This is a simulation of a triple DNA helix structure side view and viewed from above. A team of researchers at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) and the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) have managed for the first time to extract trustworthy structural information from a triple helix DNA in gas phase, that is to say in conditions in which DNA is practically in a vacuum. The study appears today in the Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS), one of the journals with greatest impact in chemistry.

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