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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
1999-7-30
pubmed:abstractText
Conformational substates of B-DNA had been observed so far in synthetic oligonucleotides but not in naturally occurring highly polymeric B-DNA. Our low-temperature experiments show that native B-DNA from salmon testes and the d(CGCGAATTCGCG)2 dodecamer have the same BI and BII substates. Nonequilibrium distribution of conformer population was generated by quenching hydrated unoriented films to 200 K, and isothermal structural relaxation toward equilibrium by interconversion of substates was followed by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy. BI interconverts into BII on isothermal relaxation at 200 K, whereas on slow cooling from ambient temperature, BII interconverts into BI. Our estimation of the dodecamer's BI-to-BII conformer substate population by curve resolution of the symmetrical stretching vibration of the ionic phosphate is 2.4 +/- 0.5 to 1 at 200 K, and it is 1.3 +/- 0.5 to 1 between 270 and 290 K. Pronounced spectral changes upon BI-to-BII interconversion are consistent with base destacking coupled with migration of water from ionic phosphate toward the phosphodiester and sugar moieties. Nonspecific interaction of proteins with the DNA backbone could become specific by induced-fit-type interactions with either BI or BII backbone conformations. This suggests that the BI-to-BII substate interconversion could be a major contributor to the protein recognition process.
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pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jul
pubmed:issn
0006-3495
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
77
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
398-409
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-18
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1999
pubmed:articleTitle
Unexpected BII conformer substate population in unoriented hydrated films of the d(CGCGAATTCGCG)2 dodecamer and of native B-DNA from salmon testes.
pubmed:affiliation
Institut für Allgemeine, Anorganische und Theoretische Chemie, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't