Heat capacity changes associated with guanine quadruplex formation: an isothermal titration calorimetry study

Biopolymers
Pinaki R MajhiRichard H Shafer

Abstract

This study addresses the temperature dependence of the enthalpy of formation for several unimolecular quadruplexes in the presence of excess monovalent salt. We examined a series of biologically significant guanine-rich DNA sequences: thrombin binding aptamer (TBA) (d(G(2)T(2)G(2)TGTG(2)T(2)G(2)), PS2.M, a catalytically active aptamer (d(GTG(3)TAG(3)CG(3)T(2)G(2))), and the human telomere repeat (HT) (d(AG(3)(T(2)AG(3))(3))). Using CD spectra and UV melting, we confirmed the presence of quadruplex structures and established the temperature range in which quadruplex conformation is stable. We then performed ITC experiments, adding DNA to a solution containing excess NaCl or KCl. In this approach, only several additions are made, and only the enthalpy of quadruplex formation is measured. This measurement was repeated at different temperatures to determine the temperature dependence of the enthalpy change accompanying quadruplex formation. To control for the effect of nonspecific salt interactions during DNA folding, we repeated the experiment by replacing the quadruplex-forming sequences with a similar but nonfolding sequence. Dilution enthalpies were also subtracted to obtain the final enthalpy value involving only the quadruple...Continue Reading

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