Unconventional helical phasing of repetitive DNA motifs reveals their relative bending contributions.
AUTOR(ES)
Dlakic, M
RESUMO
A novel, multiple DNA phasing analysis is described in which three sequence motifs associated with bent DNA are clustered together in oligomers of identical base composition, but with different phasing relationships of these motifs to each other. Synthetic oligonucleotides containing different combinations of AAAAA(A), GGGCCC and GAGAG sequence motifs were ligated and analyzed by gel mobility and cyclization experiments to determine their global curvature. These assays were used to obtain relative bending contributions of the analyzed sequence motifs. The experimental results also provide a rigorous test of predictive models for DNA bending. We report, using molecular modeling, that none of the most widely used dinucleotide (nearest neighbor) models can accurately describe the conformational properties of these DNA sequences and that more complex models, at least at the trinucleotide level, are required.
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