Abstract：
:A series of DNA heptadecamers containing the DNA analogues of RNA E-like 5'-d(GXA)/(AYG)-5' motifs (X/Y is complementary T/A, A/T, C/G, or G/C pair) were studied using nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) methodology and distance geometry (DG)/molecular dynamics (MD) approaches. Such oligomers reveal excellent resolution in NMR spectra and exhibit many unusual nuclear Overhauser effects (NOEs) that allow for good characterization of an unusual zipper-like conformation with zipper-like Watson-Crick base-pairs; the potential canonical X.Y H-bonding is not present, and the central X/Y pairs are transformed instead into inter-strand stacks that are bracketed by sheared G.A base-pairs. Such phenomenal structural change is brought about mainly through two backbone torsional angle adjustments, i.e. delta from C2'-endo to C3'-endo for the sugar puckers of unpaired residues and gamma from gauche(+) to trans for the following 3'-adenosine residues. Such motifs are analogous to the previously studied (GGA)(2) motif presumably present in the human centromeric (TGGAA)(n) tandem repeat sequence. The novel zipper-like motifs are only 4-7 deg. C less stable than the (GGA)(2) motif, suggesting that inter-strand base stacking plays an important role in stabilizing unusual nucleic acid structures. The discovery that canonical Watson-Crick G.C or A.T hydrogen-bonded pairs can be transformed into stacking pairs greatly increases the repertoire for unusual nucleic acid structural motifs.
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J Mol Bioljournal_title
Journal of molecular biologyauthors
Chou SH,Chin KHdoi
10.1006/jmbi.2001.4962keywords:
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2001-09-28 00:00:00pages
753-68issue
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0022-2836issn
1089-8638pii
S0022-2836(01)94962-9journal_volume
312pub_type
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