基于ITS2和16S rRNA的西施舌群体遗传差异分析

目前,我国西施舌群体分子遗传差异研究结果存在争议。分析我国南北沿海（9个群体）、与广西北海毗邻的越南（1个群体）西施舌核DNA的内转录间隔区2（ITS2）和线粒体DNA的16S rRNA基因（16S）片段核苷酸序列及其二级结构,为解决争议问题提供分子生物学资料。扩增获得西施舌ITS2片段和16S序列,其长度分别为389-402 bp和306 bp,加之下载序列共147条;序列分析显示,74个ITS2序列共有17种基因型,73个16S序列有15种单倍型,其中,长乐（CL）群体独享9种ITS2基因型和5种16S单倍型,非长乐群体（nCL）多数为群体间交叉共享1种或几种基因（单倍）型;基因（单倍）型核苷酸变异位点占5.7%（ITS2）和11.8%（16S）;基于ITS2和16S的CL群体和nCL群体间的遗传距离与群体内遗传距离之比分别为2.42和11.08,nCL群体间的平均遗传距离均为0.007;二级结构显示CL群体ITS2的9种基因型和16S的5种单倍型均区别于nCL群体,nCL的ITS2和16S二级结构分别相似;ITS2和16S基因的系统发育分析显示,CL西施舌形成支持率很高（98,96）的单系支,而nCL群体则交叉聚为另一支（98,96）。研究结果揭示,福建西施舌是腔蛤蜊属（Coelomactra）的一个新种。     

Local variability and base sequence effects in DNA crystal structures

The importance and usefulness of local doublet parameters in understanding sequence dependent effects has been described for A- and B-DNA oligonucleotide crystal structures. Each of the two sets of local parameters described by us in the NUPARM algorithm, namely the local doublet parameters, calculated with reference to the mean z-axis, and the local helical parameters, calculated with reference to the local helix axis, is sufficient to describe the oligonucleotide structures, with the local helical parameters giving a slightly magnified picture of the variations in the structures. The values of local doublet parameters calculated by NUPARM algorithm are similar to those calculated by NEWHELIX90 program, only if the oligonucleotide fragment is not too distorted. The mean values obtained using all the available data for B-DNA crystals are not significantly different from those obtained when a limited data set is used, consisting only of structures with a data resolution of better than 2.4 A and without any bound drug molecule. Thus the variation observed in the oligonucleotide crystals appears to be independent of the quality of their crystallinity. No strong correlation is seen between any pair of local doublet parameters but the local helical parameters are interrelated by geometric relationships. An interesting feature that emerges from this analysis is that the local rise along the z-axis is highly correlated with the difference in the buckle values of the two basepairs in the doublet, as suggested earlier for the dodecamer structures (Bansal and Bhattacharyya, in Structure & Methods: DNA & RNA, Vol. 3 (Eds., R.H. Sarma and M.H. Sarma), pp. 139-153 (1990)). In fact the local rise values become almost constant for both A- and B-forms, if a correction is applied for the buckling of the basepairs. In B-DNA the AA, AT, TA and GA basepair sequences generally have a smaller local rise (3.25 A) compared to the other sequences (3.4 A) and this seems to be an intrinsic feature of basepair stacking interaction and not related to any other local doublet parameter. The roll angles in B-DNA oligonucleotides have small values (less than +/- 8 degrees), while mean local twist varies from 24 degrees to 45 degrees. The CA/TG doublet sequences show two types of preferred geometries, one with positive roll, small positive slide and reduced twist and another with negative roll, large positive slide and increased twist.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)     

Comparison of the B- and Z-form hairpin loop structures formed by d(CG)5T4(CG)5

The partially self-complementary synthetic DNA oligonucleotide d(CG)5T4(CG)5 has been studied by using 1H and 31P NMR and circular dichroism. Results show that, under low-salt conditions (120 mM NaCl buffer), an intramolecular hairpin loop exists in which the double-helical stem region is B-form and the thymidine loop residues have predominantly southern (C2'-endo) sugar conformations. The thymidine glycosidic torsion angles are intermediate between syn and anti or exist as an equilibrium mixture of residues in the two extremes. NOESY data indicate that the structure of the loop region is very similar to that found for d(CG)2T4(CG)2 [Hare, D. R., & Reid, B. R. (1986) Biochemistry 25, 5341-5350]. Under high-salt conditions (6 M NaClO4 buffer), the dominant form (approximately equal to 85%) is an intramolecular hairpin structure in which the stem region forms a Z-form double helix. As in the B-form, the loop thymidine residues are intermediate between the syn and anti conformations or exist as an equilibrium mixture of the two, but the thymidine sugar conformations differ in that they are biased toward northern (C3'-endo) conformations.