Aggregation of melted DNA by divalent metal ion-mediated cross-linking

Biophysical Journal
J G Duguid, V A Bloomfield

Abstract

In an accompanying paper we reported the use of differential scanning calorimetry and optical densitometry to characterize the melting and aggregation of 160 bp fragments of calf thymus DNA during heating in the presence of divalent metal cations. Aggregation is observed as thermal denaturation begins and becomes more extensive with increasing temperature until the melting temperature Tm is reached, after which the aggregates dissolve extensively. The order of effectiveness of the metals in inducing aggregation is generally consistent with their ability to induce melting: Cd > Ni > Co > Mn approximately Ca > Mg. Under our experimental conditions (50 mg/ml DNA, 100 mM MCl2, [metal]/[DNA phosphate] approximately 0.6), no measurable aggregates were observed for BaDNA or SrDNA. In this paper we show that the Shibata-Schurr theory of aggregation in the thermal denaturation region provides a good model for our observations. Free energies of cross-linking, induced by the divalent cations, are estimated to be between 34% and 38% of the free energies of base stacking. The ability of a divalent metal cation to induce DNA aggregation can be attributed to its ability to disrupt DNA base pairing and simultaneously to link two different DNA ...Continue Reading

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