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SUBMITTER: Kirillova S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3206426 | biostudies-literature | 2011
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kirillova Svetlana S Carugo Oliviero O
BMC structural biology 20111019
<h4>Background</h4>Hydration is crucial for RNA structure and function. X-ray crystallography is the most commonly used method to determine RNA structures and hydration and, therefore, statistical surveys are based on crystallographic results, the number of which is quickly increasing.<h4>Results</h4>A statistical analysis of the water molecule distribution in high-resolution X-ray structures of unpaired RNA nucleotides showed that: different bases have the same penchant to be surrounded by wate ...[more]