On the Earth (and in the Internet) you can find a Triple Helix DNA...

It consists from a normal (2)Double Helix DNA where is added a partial third (1)simple Helix: 2+1=3.

 

By my Idea:

On the core of the Double Helix DNA 2 Bases X-Y make 2-3 Hydrogens Bonds with each other...

 

On the core of the Triple Helix DNA 3 Bases X-Y-Z make 3 Hydrogens Bonds with each other!!!...

On the Triple Helix the Bases are Double-Bases because each Base has 3 Hydrogens Bonds with each of the other two Bases!!!

 

By AB, CD and EF are the 3 Hydrogen Bonds which connects the three(3) Double-Bases...

The Bases X(BC), Y(DE) and X(AF) do NOT mach together in any other way, with 2 or 3 Hydrogen Bonds...

They also do NOT much with themselfs...

 

This Molecular-Model of thisTriple Helix DNA fulfills all the right conditions!!!

Namely, if you know the ONE Base - and its orientation - you also know which are the other two Bases!!!...

(Because there is only one way to join them together!!!...)

So, when the Triple Helix DNA is replicating itself... it creates - instead of two copies - three copies: 1>>>3

 

This Triple Helix DNA can also be used to store Information Like the Double Helix DNA !!!

 

The IDEA of this Triple Helix DNA is very interesting...

However it is a more complicated Model as the Double Helix...

It is more difficult to Transcript in m-RNA and to Translate with t-RNA into Proteins:

 

The Triple Helix DNA = 3/3 Bases...

Then:

or m-RNA = 1/3 Bases and t-RNA = 2/3 Bases

or m-RNA = 2/3 Bases and t-RNA = 1/3 Bases

 

But it could be possible to exist in the Universe...

 

Koni

 

 

I must say it is a very interesting theory and from what i gather from your post, it does seem to have a credible basis.

Where is the Triple Helix?

Waiting on your reply.

The Triple Helix DNA model - like the Double Helix DNA - has a backbone of Sugars and Phosphates !!!

(In the Images you can only see the core of the Bases of the Helices)

thanks for your prompt reply.

My Triple Helix DNA is between reality and fantasy!!!...

Well, in nanoscience people are doing fancy stuff with DNA. To what end, is somewhat unclear. Sometime in the nineties a crystal structure of a triplex complexed to a peptide nucleic acid was reported, for example (can't recall the author, but it was done by then Glaxo. Since then numerous similar molecules have been published.

Thanks for your post !!!

Except that my Hypothetical Triple Helix DNA model can store INFORMATION Like the Double Helix DNA !!!... :-)

Have you some pictures - examples of them???

The Triple Helix DNA is unique like the Double Helix DNA...

There are no other ways to store Information with Hydrogen-Bonds!!!...

To store INFORMATION the Bases have to join together with only one way!!!...

They can be other DNA-Molecules like with Hydrogen Bonds but they cannot store Information...

Edited August 6, 201510 yr by Koni