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  2. Nucleic acid structure - Wikipedia

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    Its favored conformation is at low water concentrations. A-DNAs base pairs are tilted relative to the helix axis, and are displaced from the axis. The sugar pucker occurs at the C3'-endo and in RNA 2'-OH inhibits C2'-endo conformation. [13] Long considered little more than a laboratory artifice, A-DNA is now known to have several biological ...

  3. A-DNA - Wikipedia

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    In one study, the characteristic C3'-endo pucker is found on the first three sugars of the DNA strand, while the last three sugars have a C2'-endo pucker, like B-DNA. [2] These intermediates can form in aqueous solutions when the cytosine bases are methylated or brominated, altering the conformation.

  4. Haplogroup C-M217 - Wikipedia

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    Haplogroup C-M217, also known as C2 (and previously as C3), [1] is a Y-chromosome DNA haplogroup.It is the most frequently occurring branch of the wider Haplogroup C (M130). ). It is found mostly in Central Asia, Eastern Siberia and significant frequencies in parts of East Asia and Southeast Asia including some populations in the Caucasus, Middle East, South Asia, East Eur

  5. Nucleic acid double helix - Wikipedia

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    The double-helix model of DNA structure was first published in the journal Nature by James Watson and Francis Crick in 1953, [6] (X,Y,Z coordinates in 1954 [7]) based on the work of Rosalind Franklin and her student Raymond Gosling, who took the crucial X-ray diffraction image of DNA labeled as "Photo 51", [8] [9] and Maurice Wilkins, Alexander Stokes, and Herbert Wilson, [10] and base-pairing ...

  6. Deoxyribose - Wikipedia

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    In aqueous solution, deoxyribose primarily exists as a mixture of three structures: the linear form H−(C=O)−(CH 2)−(CHOH) 3 −H and two ring forms, deoxyribofuranose ("C3′-endo"), with a five-membered ring, and deoxyribopyranose ("C2′-endo"), with a six-membered ring. The latter form is predominant (whereas the C3′-endo form is ...

  7. Lectin pathway - Wikipedia

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    Structure of mannose in its α-D mannopyranose form. Mannan is a polymer of mannose.. The lectin pathway or MBL pathway is a type of cascade reaction in the complement system, similar in structure to the classical complement pathway, [1] in that, after activation, it proceeds through the action of C4 and C2 to produce activated complement proteins further down the cascade.

  8. Complement component 3 - Wikipedia

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    Complement component 3, often simply called C3, is a protein of the immune system that is found primarily in the blood. It plays a central role in the complement system of vertebrate animals and contributes to innate immunity .

  9. C3-convertase - Wikipedia

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    Since C3 convertases cleave C3 to produce C3b which can then form an additional C3 convertase through the alternative pathway, this is a potential mechanism of signal amplification in the complement cascade resulting in the deposition of large numbers of C3b molecules on the surface of activating particles, enabling opsonisation and acute local ...