Supercoiling-dependent flexibility of adenosine-tract-containing DNA detected by a topological method
AUTOR(ES)
Tsen, Hua
FONTE
The National Academy of Sciences of the USA
RESUMO
Intrinsically bent DNA sequences have been implicated in the activation of transcription by promoting juxtaposition of DNA sequences near the terminal loop of a superhelical domain. We have developed a novel topological assay for DNA looping based on λ integrative recombination to study the effects of intrinsically bent DNA sequences on the tertiary structure of negatively supercoiled DNA. Remarkably, the localization of adenosine-tract (A-tract) sequences in the terminal loop of a supercoiled plasmid is independent of the extent of intrinsic bending. The results suggest that A-tract-containing sequences have other properties that organize the structure of superhelical domains apart from intrinsic bending and may explain the lack of conservation in the degree of A-tract-dependent bending among DNA sequences located upstream of bacterial promoters.
ACESSO AO ARTIGO
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