The contribution of thymine-thymine interactions to the stability of folded dimeric quadruplexes.

AUTOR(ES)

Keniry, M A

RESUMO

The loop of four thymines in the sodium form of the dimeric folded quadruplex [d(G3T4G3)]2 assumes a well-defined structure in which hydrogen bonding between the thymine bases appears to contribute to the stability and final conformation of the quadruplex. We have investigated the importance of the loop interactions by systematically replacing each thymine in the loop with a cytosine. The quadruplexes formed by d(G3CT3G3), d(G3TCT2G3), d(G3T2CTG3) and d(G3T3CG3) in the presence of 150 mM Na+ were studied by gel mobility, circular dichroism and 1H NMR spectroscopy. The major species formed by d(G3CT3G3), d(G3TCT2G3) and d(G3T3CG3) at 1 mM strand concentration at neutral pH is a dimeric folded quadruplex. d(G3T2CTG3) has anomalous behaviour and associates into a greater percentage of linear four-stranded quadruplex than the other three oligonucleotides at neutral pH and at the same concentration. The linear four-stranded quadruplex has a greater tendency to oligomerize to larger ill-defined structures, as demonstrated by broad 1H NMR resonances. At pH 4, when the cytosine is protonated, there is a greater tendency for each of the oligonucleotides to form some four-stranded linear quadruplex, except for d(G3T2CTG3), which has the reverse tendency. The experimental results are discussed in terms of hydrogen bonding within the thymine loop.

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