Thermodynamic and kinetic properties of short RNA helices: the oligomer sequence AnGCUn |
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Authors: | Ravetch J Gralla J Crothers D M |
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Affiliation: | Department of Chemistry, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520 |
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Abstract: | We studied the thermodynamic, kinetic and optical properties of the double helices formed by the series of self-complementary oligonucleotides, (AP)nGpC(pU)n, 2 ≤ n ≤ 4, and found that the shortest helix, containing just 6 base pairs, is less stable than would be predicted from the properties of the larger molecules. It also shows a markedly smaller hyperchromism on melting than expected. These anomalous properties of a short helix indicate that one cannot always assume that base pair free energies and extinction coefficient changes are independent of helix size. |
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