On Tue, 2012-11-27 at 21:46 -0800, William G. Scott wrote:
> Are Mg++ ions ever observed to chelate primary amines?
MESPEUS reports, for example, 13 structure where magnesium is
coordinated by a lysine. 7 with arginines and a bunch of asn/gln side
chains as well. It does not prove, of course, that primary amines
coordinate magnesium ions, only that in a limited number of cases
crystallographers have interpreted their data this way.
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