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2 J.P. Glusker<br />

5 Interactions of Planar Functional Groups <strong>in</strong> Prote<strong>in</strong>s . . . . . . . . . 26<br />

5.1 Surround<strong>in</strong>gs ofCarboxylate Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26<br />

5.2 Surround<strong>in</strong>gs of Imidazole and Histid<strong>in</strong>e Groups . . . . . . . . . . . 29<br />

5.3 Surround<strong>in</strong>gs of Arg<strong>in</strong><strong>in</strong>e Si<strong>de</strong> Cha<strong>in</strong>s <strong>in</strong> Prote<strong>in</strong>s . . . . . . . . . . . 30<br />

5.4 Surround<strong>in</strong>gs of a-Hydroxycarboxylate Groups . . . . . . . . . . . . 31<br />

6 Metal Ion-Based Directional Interactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31<br />

6.1 Metal Ion Coord<strong>in</strong>ation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33<br />

6.2 Magnesium B<strong>in</strong>d<strong>in</strong>g . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33<br />

6.3 Z<strong>in</strong>c B<strong>in</strong>d<strong>in</strong>g . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34<br />

6.4 Calcium B<strong>in</strong>d<strong>in</strong>g . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35<br />

6.5 Ionophores and Other Metal-B<strong>in</strong>d<strong>in</strong>g Molecules . . . . . . . . . . . . 37<br />

6.6 Metal-B<strong>in</strong>d<strong>in</strong>g Sites <strong>in</strong> Prote<strong>in</strong>s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38<br />

7 Networks of Interactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39<br />

7.1 Descriptions of Hydrogen Bond<strong>in</strong>g Networks . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40<br />

8 Crystal Surface Recognition and Chirality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40<br />

9 Applications to Macromolecular Structures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42<br />

9.1 B<strong>in</strong>d<strong>in</strong>g of Drugs to Dihydrofolate Reductase . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42<br />

9.2 B<strong>in</strong>d<strong>in</strong>g of Drugs to Nucleic Acids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44<br />

9.3 Prote<strong>in</strong>-Nucleic Acid Interactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50<br />

10 Incipient Chemical Reaction Pathways . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52<br />

11 Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53<br />

12 References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53<br />

List of Abbreviations and Symbols<br />

A a<strong>de</strong>n<strong>in</strong>e<br />

A ◊ T, G ◊ C base pairs<br />

C cytos<strong>in</strong>e<br />

CSD Cambridge Structural Database<br />

DNA <strong>de</strong>oxyribonucleic acid<br />

G guan<strong>in</strong>e<br />

ICSD Inorganic Crystal Structure Database<br />

NADPH nicot<strong>in</strong>ami<strong>de</strong> a<strong>de</strong>n<strong>in</strong>e d<strong>in</strong>ucleoti<strong>de</strong> phosphate<br />

PAH polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon<br />

PDB Prote<strong>in</strong> Data Bank<br />

T thym<strong>in</strong>e

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