2016
Conformations of Human Telomeric G-Quadruplex Studied Using a Nucleotide-Independent Nitroxide Label
ZHANG, Xiaojun; Cui-Xia XU; Rosa DI FELICE; Jiří ŠPONER; Barira ISLAM et al.Základní údaje
Originální název
Conformations of Human Telomeric G-Quadruplex Studied Using a Nucleotide-Independent Nitroxide Label
Autoři
ZHANG, Xiaojun; Cui-Xia XU; Rosa DI FELICE; Jiří ŠPONER; Barira ISLAM; Petr STADLBAUER; Yuan DING; Lingling MAO; Zong-Wan MAO a Peter Z. QIN
Vydání
Biochemistry, WASHINGTON, AMER CHEMICAL SOC, 2016, 0006-2960
Další údaje
Jazyk
angličtina
Typ výsledku
Článek v odborném periodiku
Obor
10600 1.6 Biological sciences
Stát vydavatele
Spojené státy
Utajení
není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství
Odkazy
Impakt faktor
Impact factor: 2.938
Označené pro přenos do RIV
Ano
Kód RIV
RIV/00216224:14740/16:00089404
Organizační jednotka
Středoevropský technologický institut
UT WoS
EID Scopus
Klíčová slova anglicky
PARAMAGNETIC-RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; AMBER FORCE-FIELD; NUCLEIC-ACIDS; K+ SOLUTION; NANOMETER DISTANCES; CIRCULAR-DICHROISM; DNA DUPLEX; SEQUENCE; RNA; SIMULATIONS
Štítky
Příznaky
Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno
Změněno: 4. 8. 2016 09:27, Mgr. Eva Špillingová
Anotace
V originále
Guanine-rich oligonucleotides can form a unique G-quadruplex (GQ) structure with stacking units of four guanine bases organized in a plane through Hoogsteen bonding. GQ structures have been detected in vivo and shown to exert their roles in maintaining genome integrity and regulating gene expression. Understanding GQ conformation is important for understanding its inherent biological role and for devising strategies to control and manipulate functions based on targeting GQ. Although a number of biophysical methods have been used to investigate structure and dynamics of GQs, our understanding is far from complete. As such, this work explores the use of the site-directed spin labeling technique, complemented by molecular dynamics simulations, for investigating GQ conformations. A nucleotide-independent nitroxide label (R5), which has been previously applied for probing conformations of noncoding RNA and DNA duplexes, is attached to multiple sites in a 22-nucleotide DNA strand derived from the human telomeric sequence (hTel-22) that is known to form GQ. The R5 labels are shown to minimally impact GQ folding, and inter-R5 distances measured using double electron-electron resonance spectroscopy are shown to adequately distinguish the different topological conformations of hTel-22 and report variations in their occupancies in response to changes of the environment variables such as salt, crowding agent, and small molecule ligand. The work demonstrates that the R5 label is able to probe GQ conformation and establishes the base for using R5 to study more complex sequences, such as those that may potentially form multimeric GQs in long telomeric repeats.
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