The Structure and Properties of Nucleotides

Frank-Kamenetskii, M.D., and S.M. Mirkin. 1995. Triplex DNA structures. Annu. Rev. Biochem. 64:65–95.

Friedberg, E.C., G.C. Walker, and W. Siede. 1995. DNA Repair and Mutagenesis. New York: W.H. Freeman and Company. A good source for more information on the chemistry of nucleotides and nucleic acids.

Keniry, M.A. 2000. Quadruplex structures in nucleic acids. Biopolymers 56:123–146. A good summary of the structural properties of quadruplexes (tetraplexes).

Rich, A., and S. Zhang. 2003. Timeline: Z-DNA—The long road to biological function. Nat. Rev. Genet. 4:566–572.

Shafer, R.H. 1998. Stability and structure of model DNA triplexes and quadruplexes and their interactions with small ligands. Prog. Nucleic Acid Res. Mol. Biol. 59:55–94.

Wells, R.D. 1988. Unusual DNA structures. J. Biol. Chem. 263:1095–1098. Minireview, presenting a concise summary.

DNA Structure

Collins, A.R. 1999. Oxidative DNA damage, antioxidants, and cancer. Bioessays 21:238–246.

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Kornberg, A., and T.A. Baker. 2005. DNA Replication, 2nd ed. New York: W.H. Freeman and Company. The best place to start to learn more about DNA structure.

Marnett, L.J., and J.P. Plastaras. 2001. Endogenous DNA damage and mutation. Trends Genet. 17:214–221.

Olby, R.C. 1994. The Path to the Double Helix: The Discovery of DNA. New York: Dover Publications.

Sayre, A. 1978. Rosalind Franklin and DNA. New York: W.W. Norton & Company.

Sinden, R.R. 1994. DNA Structure and Function. San Diego: Academic Press. A fine discussion of many topics covered in this chapter.

Watson, J.D. 1968. The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA. New York: Atheneum (paperback edition, New York: Simon & Schuster/Touchstone Books, 2001).

RNA Structure

Chang, K.Y., and G. Varani. 1997. Nucleic acids structure and recognition. Nat. Struct. Biol. 4(Suppl.):854–858. A description of the application of NMR (nuclear magnetic resonance) to the determination of nucleic acid structure.

Hecht, S.M., ed. 1996. Bioorganic Chemistry: Nucleic Acids. Oxford: Oxford University Press. A very useful text.

Moore, P.B. 1999. Structural motifs in RNA. Annu. Rev. Biochem. 68:287–300.

Saenger, W. 1984. Principles of Nucleic Acid Structure. New York: Springer-Verlag. A somewhat dated but classic text, containing one of the best in-depth compilations of nucleic acid structural data available.