Probing the role of hydrogen bonds in the stability of base pairs in double-helical DNA.

Abstract:

:Aromatic stacking and hydrogen bonding between nucleobases are two of the key interactions responsible for stabilization of DNA double-helical structures. The present work aims at defining the specific contributions of these interactions to the stability of individual base pairs in DNA. The two DNA double helices investigated are formed, respectively, by the palindromic base sequences 5'-dCCAACGTTGG-3' and 5'-dCGCAGATCTGCG-3'. The strength of the N==H...N inter-base hydrogen bond in each base pair is characterized from the measurement of the protium-deuterium fractionation factor of the corresponding imino proton using NMR spectroscopy. The structural stability of each base pair is evaluated from the exchange rate of the imino proton, measured by NMR. The results reveal that the fractionation factors of the imino protons in the two DNA double helices investigated fall within a narrow range of values, between 0.92 and 1.0. In contrast, the free energies of structural stabilization for individual base pairs span 3.5 kcal/mol, from 5.2 to 8.7 kcal/mol (at 15 degrees C). These findings indicate that, in the two DNA double helices investigated, the strength of N==H...N inter-base hydrogen bonds does not change significantly depending on the nature or the sequence context of the base pair. Hence, the variations in structural stability detected by proton exchange do not involve changes in the strength of inter-base hydrogen bonds. Instead, the results suggest that the energetic identity of a base pair is determined by the number of inter-base hydrogen bonds, and by the stacking interactions with neighboring base pairs.

journal_name

Biopolymers

journal_title

Biopolymers

authors

Every AE,Russu IM

doi

10.1002/bip.20811

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2007-10-05 00:00:00

pages

165-73

issue

2-3

eissn

0006-3525

issn

1097-0282

journal_volume

87

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