Small Molecules that Induce and Stabilize Z-DNA Structures

1 Small Molecules that Induce and Stabilize Z-DNA Structures 

containing alternating purine and pyrimidine repeats, is one of the most well studied structures besides A- and B-DNA. As described in Section 3.1.1.1, Z-DNA is a left-handed helix in which the purines are in the syn 

In addition to the metallocomplexes, metal cations, primarily divalent cations, which tend to take coordination structures specific to Z-DNA, could thus stabilize its structure. Indeed, many crystal structures of Z-DNA have been determined with Mg Ba Cu and These structures showed 

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