... 3A), causing the sulfur atom to point into the enzyme interior. The ribose O2¢ atomof exo-2¢,3¢-GCPT forms a hydrogen bond with theGlu56 OE1, and O3¢ forms a hydrogen bond with theside chain of ... hydrogen-bonding network with the enzyme, and this seems to be very important forproper enzyme base binding. Other bases form a lowernumber of hydrogen bonds, up to two, and have worsefits in ... base-binding site appears to be too large;for cytosine and uracil, we observed both horizontalshifts and rotation of the base with respect to theplane of the guanine, by up to 40°, disrupting...