J 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

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.

Návaznosti

ED1.1.00/02.0068, projekt VaV
Název: CEITEC - central european institute of technology
EE2.3.30.0037, projekt VaV
Název: Zaměstnáním nejlepších mladých vědců k rozvoji mezinárodní spolupráce