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带和不带A形梁的DNA的模拟和实验弯曲动力学

Simulated and Experimental Bending Dynamics in DNA with and without A-Tracts

Alexey K. Mazur, Dimitri E. Kamashev

摘要:

由规则重复的腺嘌呤束引起的双螺旋DNA的宏观弯曲是众所周知的,但仍然令人困惑。它的物理起源仍然存在争议,即使它可能是DNA结构的最佳记录序列调制。我们在这里报告的结果比较理论和实验研究的弯曲动力学在35聚体DNA片段。这个长度看起来足够大,可以通过凝胶电泳区分曲率。两个DNA片段,具有相同的碱基对组成,但不同的序列进行比较。在第一个中,一个单一的A-道基序是四次重复的相位与螺旋螺丝,而第二个序列是“随机”。计算和实验都表明,A束DNA具有较大的静态曲率和弯曲动力学特性,表明计算结果与实验现象相一致。结果不太同意与早期的观点,归因于一个决定性的作用,在DNA弯曲的序列特异性碱基对堆叠或结合的溶剂抗衡离子,但提供额外的支持的假设的压缩沮丧状态的骨干作为静态曲率的主要物理原因。我们讨论了实验验证这一假设的可能途径。

英文摘要:

The macroscopic curvature of double helical DNA induced by regularly repeated adenine tracts is well-known but still puzzling. Its physical origin remains controversial even though it is perhaps the best-documented sequence modulation of DNA structure. We report here the results of comparative theoretical and experimental studies of bending dynamics in 35-mer DNA fragments. This length appears large enough for the curvature to be distinguished by gel electrophoresis. Two DNA fragments, with identical base pair composition, but different sequences are compared. In the first one, a single A-tract motif was four times repeated in phase with the helical screw whereas the second sequence was "random". Both calculations and experiments indicate that the A-tract DNA is distinguished by the large static curvature and characteristic bending dynamics, suggesting that the computed effect corresponds to the experimental phenomenon. The results poorly agree with earlier views that attributed a decisive role in DNA bending to sequence specific base pair stacking or binding of solvent counterions, but lend additional support to the hypothesis of a compressed frustrated state of the backbone as the principal physical cause of the static curvature. We discuss the possible ways of experimental verification of this hypothesis.

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