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'''X-RAY AND SOLUTION STUDIES OF DNA OLIGOMERS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR THE STRUCTURAL BASIS OF A-TRACT-DEPENDENT CURVATURE''' | '''X-RAY AND SOLUTION STUDIES OF DNA OLIGOMERS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR THE STRUCTURAL BASIS OF A-TRACT-DEPENDENT CURVATURE''' | ||
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==About this Structure== | ==About this Structure== | ||
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==Reference== | ==Reference== | ||
X-ray and solution studies of DNA oligomers and implications for the structural basis of A-tract-dependent curvature., Shatzky-Schwartz M, Arbuckle ND, Eisenstein M, Rabinovich D, Bareket-Samish A, Haran TE, Luisi BF, Shakked Z, J Mol Biol. 1997 Apr 4;267(3):595-623. PMID:[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9126841 9126841] | X-ray and solution studies of DNA oligomers and implications for the structural basis of A-tract-dependent curvature., Shatzky-Schwartz M, Arbuckle ND, Eisenstein M, Rabinovich D, Bareket-Samish A, Haran TE, Luisi BF, Shakked Z, J Mol Biol. 1997 Apr 4;267(3):595-623. PMID:[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9126841 9126841] | ||
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X-RAY AND SOLUTION STUDIES OF DNA OLIGOMERS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR THE STRUCTURAL BASIS OF A-TRACT-DEPENDENT CURVATURE
Overview
DNA containing short periodic stretches of adenine residues (known as A-tracts), which are aligned with the helical repeat, exhibit a pronounced macroscopic curvature. This property is thought to arise from the cumulative effects of a distinctive structure of the A-tract. It has also been observed by gel electrophoresis that macroscopic curvature is largely retained when inosine bases are introduced singly into A-tracts but decreases abruptly for pure I-tracts. The structural basis of this effect is unknown. Here we describe X-ray and gel electrophoretic analyses of several oligomers incorporating adenine or inosine bases or both. We find that macroscopic curvature is correlated with a distinctive base-stacking geometry characterized by propeller twisting of the base-pairs. Regions of alternating adenine and inosine bases display large propeller twisting comparable to that of pure A-tracts, whereas the values observed for pure I-tracts are significantly smaller. We also observe in the crystal structures that propeller twist leads to close cross-strand contacts between amino groups from adenine and cytosine bases, indicating an attractive NH-N interaction, which is analogous to the NH-O interaction proposed for A-tracts. This interaction also occurs between adenine bases across an A-T step and may explain in part the different behavior of A-T versus T-A steps in the context of A-tract-induced curvature. We also note that hydration patterns may contribute to propeller-twisted conformation. Based on the present data and other structural and biophysical studies, we propose that DNA macroscopic curvature is related to the structural invariance of A-tract and A-tract-like regions conferred by high propeller twist, cross-strand interactions and characteristic hydration. The implications of these findings to the mechanism of DNA bending are discussed.
About this Structure
Full crystallographic information is available from OCA.
Reference
X-ray and solution studies of DNA oligomers and implications for the structural basis of A-tract-dependent curvature., Shatzky-Schwartz M, Arbuckle ND, Eisenstein M, Rabinovich D, Bareket-Samish A, Haran TE, Luisi BF, Shakked Z, J Mol Biol. 1997 Apr 4;267(3):595-623. PMID:9126841 Page seeded by OCA on Sat May 3 18:25:32 2008
