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This "figure-review" was written by Julia A. Urawski as part of an assignment for a Biochemistry course at Westfield State University, and posted by the instructor with permission. | This "figure-review" was written by Julia A. Urawski as part of an assignment for a Biochemistry course at Westfield State University, and posted by the instructor with permission. | ||
#'''My favorite figure''': Figure “Guanine-Cytosine”. The script is "http:/wiki/scripts/User:Adithya_Sagar/Workbench_newDNA/B-dna/15.spt". The primary citation is from 1981, and available at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6941276. This figure is based on “The Structure of B-DNA in Oriented Fibers” – J Biomol Structure Dynamics. Also available is a secondary source from a 2002 biochemistry textbook. This citation is available at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK22386/. | #'''My favorite figure''': Figure “Guanine-Cytosine”. The coordinates are at http://proteopedia.org/wiki/index.php/Image:B-DNA.pdb and the script is "http:/wiki/scripts/User:Adithya_Sagar/Workbench_newDNA/B-dna/15.spt". The primary citation is from 1981, and available at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6941276. This figure is based on “The Structure of B-DNA in Oriented Fibers” – J Biomol Structure Dynamics. Also available is a secondary source from a 2002 biochemistry textbook. This citation is available at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK22386/. | ||
#'''This is my suggestion for a figure legend''': Base pairing guanine-cytosine involves 3 hydrogen bonds. Guanine is a purine and cytosine is a pyrimidine. The two nucleotides are shown with a background of surrounding DNA from the same molecule. | #'''This is my suggestion for a figure legend''': Base pairing guanine-cytosine involves 3 hydrogen bonds. Guanine is a purine and cytosine is a pyrimidine. The two nucleotides are shown with a background of surrounding DNA from the same molecule. | ||
#'''What I like about the figure''': Although this figure may look simple compared to some of the others that I could have selected, I understand the importance of guanine-cytosine bonding in DNA (apart from the fact that those two bases are there to code for amino acids). The higher the G-C content of DNA, the more stable the DNA is – an A-T interaction only has two hydrogen bonds each, as opposed to the three hydrogen bonds of a G-C interaction. | #'''What I like about the figure''': Although this figure may look simple compared to some of the others that I could have selected, I understand the importance of guanine-cytosine bonding in DNA (apart from the fact that those two bases are there to code for amino acids). The higher the G-C content of DNA, the more stable the DNA is – an A-T interaction only has two hydrogen bonds each, as opposed to the three hydrogen bonds of a G-C interaction. | ||