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Figure 1.
Figure 1. Hoogsteen pairing of dA with T or C. (a) Chemical structures of A and dA. (b) Hoogsteen base pair of syn-A in syn with anti-T or anti-C. Jagged line represents steric clash between the N6 group of A and the N4 of C. (c) Hoogsteen base pair of dA with T or C. Dotted lines represent hydrogen bonds and R denotes the sugar moiety.

The above figure is reprinted by permission from Macmillan Publishers Ltd: Nat Struct Mol Biol (2006, 13, 619-625) copyright 2006.