Electrophoretic mobility is a reporter of hairpin structure in single-stranded DNA oligomers.

Abstract:

:The electrophoretic mobilities of 24 single-stranded DNA oligomers, each containing 26 nucleotide residues, have been measured in polyacrylamide gels and in free solution. The mobilities observed at 20 degrees C differed by approximately 20% in polyacrylamide gels and by approximately 10% in free solution, even though the oligomers contained the same number of bases. Increasing the temperature or adding urea to the solution equalized the mobilities of the oligomers, suggesting that the variable mobilities observed at 20 degrees C are due to the formation of stable secondary structures, most likely hairpins. Thermal melting profiles were measured for eight oligomers in 40 mM Tris acetate buffer. The observed melting temperatures of most oligomers correlated roughly with the mobilities observed at 20 degrees C; however, one oligomer was much more stable than the others. The melting temperatures of four of the oligomers were close to the values predicted by DINAMelt [Markham, N. R., and Zuker, M. (2005) Nucleic Acids Res. 33, W577-W581]; melting temperatures of the other oligomers differed significantly from the predicted values. Thermal melting profiles were also measured for two oligomers as a function of the Tris acetate buffer concentration. The salt concentration dependence of the melting temperatures suggests that 0.15 Tris+ ion per phosphate is released upon denaturation. Because the apparent number of Tris+ ions released is greater than that observed by others for the release of Na+ ions from similar hairpins, the results suggest that DNA hairpins (and, presumably, duplexes) bind more Tris+ ions than Na+ ions in solution.

journal_name

Biochemistry

journal_title

Biochemistry

authors

Stellwagen E,Abdulla A,Dong Q,Stellwagen NC

doi

10.1021/bi701058f

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2007-09-25 00:00:00

pages

10931-41

issue

38

eissn

0006-2960

issn

1520-4995

journal_volume

46

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