These interactions play an important role in nature, because they are responsible for specific properties of proteins or nucleic acids and, for example, also ensure that water has a high boiling ...

Nucleic acid chemistryArtificial nucleic acids with a fixed conformation of the backbone of the oligonucleotide can form stable duplexes, however, the synthesis of modified nucleotides with non ...

T4 polynucleotide kinase (abbreviated as T4 PNK), also found in T4 bacteriophage, helps in the transfer an organic phosphate from the ATP molecule to the 5′-hydroxyl group of a nucleic acid.

Unlike chemical bonds, which involve the sharing or transfer of electrons, hydrogen bonds are dipole–dipole interactions between certain molecules containing hydrogen. As well as playing key roles in ...