A note on sequence-dependence of DNA structure |
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Authors: | A. Galat |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Chemistry, Harvard University, 12 Oxford Street, 02138 Cambridge, MA, USA |
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Abstract: | A circular dichroism study was conducted on the solution structure of several different oligonucleotides, whose X-ray structures have been solved. It is suggested that in aqueous solution the oligonucleotides can form structures that maintain geometrical elements which are typical of B-DNA, A-DNA, and their intermediate forms. It is shown that 5'GGATGGGAG:5'CTCCCATCC, which forms an A-DNA helix in the crystal state (McCall et al. 1986), in aqueous solution maintains an A-DNA like structure at temperatures below 10 degrees C. At temperatures between 10 degrees C and 25 degrees C it shows a tendency to form an intermediate structure between A-DNA and B-DNA. Also, it is shown that TFE does not cause a transition from B-DNA to A-DNA helix in short DNA fragments, but instead disrupts the helix. |
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Keywords: | DNA structure A-DNA B-DNA CD spectra molecular dynamics simulation |
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