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双螺旋DNA内禀弯曲的物理根源

The Physical Origin of Intrinsic Bends in Double Helical DNA

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研究中发挥着关键作用,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节的未知一般机制的大门。我们报道了一个25-mer的B-DNA片段的分子动力学模拟结果,该片段的序列包括三个与螺旋定相的A-区。它代表了第一个模型系统,其中正确定向的静态曲率自发地出现在除了碱基对序列之外不包括任何初始偏差的条件下。该效应已在10-20 ns的三个独立MD轨迹中再现,具有重要的定性细节,表明最终弯曲状态是形成构象空间的广泛域的轨迹的强吸引子。然而,弯曲构象的合奏,揭示了显着的微观异质性的矛盾,所有现有的弯曲理论模型。对这些意想不到的观察结果的分析导致了一个新的,显著不同的双螺旋DNA内在弯曲的可能机制的假设。

英文摘要:

The macroscopic curvature induced in the 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. We report the results of molecular dynamics simulations of a 25-mer B-DNA fragment with a sequence including three A-tract phased with the helical screw. It represents the first model system where properly directed static curvature emerges spontaneously in conditions excluding any initial bias except the base pair sequence. The effect has been reproduced in three independent MD trajectories of 10-20 ns with important qualitative details suggesting that the final bent state is a strong attractor of trajectories form a broad domain of the conformational space. The ensemble of curved conformations, however, reveals significant microscopic heterogeneity in contradiction to all existing theoretical models of bending. Analysis of these unexpected observations leads to a new, significantly different hypothesis of the possible mechanism of intrinsic bends in the double helical DNA.

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