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A道诱导的DNA弯曲是一种局部非静电效应

A-Tract Induced DNA Bending is A Local Non-Electrostatic Effect

Alexey K. Mazur

摘要:

由规则重复的腺嘌呤束(A束)在双螺旋B-DNA中诱导的宏观弯曲是一个长期已知的,但仍然无法解释的现象。这种效应在DNA研究中起着关键作用,因为它在可用实验信息的数量和种类上是独一无二的,因此,很可能成为通往基因组序列识别和调控的未知一般机制的大门。近年来的主流观点是,一般来说,DNA中的宏观弯曲是由磷酸基团之间的长程静电排斥引起的,当其中一些磷酸基团被邻近的外部电荷中和时。在A束的情况下,这可能是特异性结合的溶剂抗衡离子。在这里,我们报告有关分子动力学模拟,其中正确的静态曲率在DNA片段与相腺嘌呤束自发出现的条件下,任何作用的抗衡离子或远程静电效应可以被排除。

英文摘要:

The macroscopic curvature induced in double helical B-DNA by regularly repeated adenine tracts (A-tracts) is a long known, but still unexplained phenomenon. This effect plays a key role in DNA studies because it is unique in the amount and the variety of the available experimental information and, therefore, is likely to serve as a gate to the unknown general mechanisms of recognition and regulation of genome sequences. The dominating idea in the recent years was that, in general, macroscopic bends in DNA are caused by long range electrostatic repulsion between phosphate groups when some of them are neutralized by proximal external charges. In the case of A-tracts this may be specifically bound solvent counterions. Here we report about molecular dynamics simulations where a correct static curvature in a DNA fragment with phased adenine tracts emerges spontaneously in conditions where any role of counterions or long range electrostatic effects can be excluded.

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