[Electronic and spacial structure of orthophosphate and dimethylorthophosphate].

The applicability of a number of semiempirical CNDO variants for the computations of the electronic structure of different conformations for all possible ionic forms of dimethylorthophosphate and orthophosphate has been considered. The Boyd-Whitehead variant of CNDO approximation (CNDO/BW) with the original parameters we chose for the P-O bond gives the best qualitative and sometimes quantitative correspondence with ab initio methods. We have utilized this approximation to compute the dependences of energies and P-O bond strengths in P-O-CH3 (P-O-H) fragments of dimethylorthophosphate and orthophosphate versus the angles of rotation of these fragments about the P-O bonds.

[Protein-protein recognition: testing of some hypotheses of binding site's structure using Brookhaven data bank].

Four amino acid's complementarity hypotheses have been checked using the data on the structure of 122 protein complexes taken from protein Brookhaven Data Bank. No one of hypotheses was conformed at the analysis of the contact region structures of the protein complexes examined.

[Secondary structure of DNA from T4 and T6 phages].

The secondary structure of NaDNA from E. coli T4 and T6 phages has been studied by the X-ray diffraction method. Molecules of these DNAs as well as T2 phage DNA molecules contain hydroxymethylcytosine glucosylated at different position instead of cytosine.

An x-ray diffraction study of ribosome structure.

Dense gels of E. coli 70 S ribosomes, their 50 S subunits, CM-like particles, RNP strands and their fragments, 38 S particles obtained from RNP strand folding upon addition of Mg2+ ions, and of unoriented salt-free and free rRNA sodium and magnesium salts were studied by X-ray diffraction. It was shown that under dense gel conditions RNA molecules contained in ribosomes unfolded by desalting, like all other particles considered here, have helical regions.