198 Topics in Current Chemistry Editorial Board: A. de Meijere KN ...
198 Topics in Current Chemistry Editorial Board: A. de Meijere KN ...
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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