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[ 27 ] Generating peptide backbones sufficiently close to the native backbone to allow packing algorithms is still a challenge.
To solve the problem of cell penetration, most researchers have either complexed the RNA with a lipid or modified the RNA's phosphate backbone to minimize its charge.
The alkyl backbone of the transported glycerol is adjacent to the hydrophobic surface and the hydroxyl groups form hydrogen bonds with the hydrophilic surfaces [ 23, 24].
In the former case, the DNA backbone sites located closest to one another are across the minor groove and separated in sequence by 3 bp [ 28 29 30 ] . The second proposal is supported by a recent 2.2 angstrom NarL-DNA structure for NarL-C-terminal domain complexed to a synthetic 7-2-7 NarL consensus binding site where the protein causes a conformational change of B-DNA to A-DNA (Ann Maris, personal communication).
This might be due to the polysaccharide backbone of cellulose [ 60 ] with a propensity to form strong intermolecular hydrogen bonds and to be involved in hydrophobic interactions more than soluble dextrans [ 61 ] and galactose + 3,6-anhydrogalactose copolymers (= the saccharide moiety of carrageenan) [ 62 63 ] . Among the two polymers containing aryl sulfonates, poly(napthalene sulfonate) was more effective than poly(styrene-4-sulfonate) with respect to induction of gp41 six-helix bundles in HIV-1 BaL.