Basepairs involving WatsonCrick(W) edge of Adenine and Hoogsteen(H) edge of Guanine is shown. Highlighted examples are found from RNA crystal structures obtained from PDB.

Base pairs stabilized by N-H...N/O type hydrogen bonds only

Basepair

(type & Orientation)

*Frequency

Example

Hydrogen bonding atoms with their precursors

A:G +:H Cis

4

Optimized Model Structure

N9-N7...N1-N9

N1-O6...N6-N7

* 1st and 2nd numbers in Frequency column represent the numbers of occurences as base pairs and as base triplets, respectively.