PMID: 7540286May 25, 1995Paper

Spectroscopic studies of chimeric DNA-RNA and RNA 29-base intramolecular triple helices

Nucleic Acids Research
J LiquierT Huynh-Dinh

Abstract

Fourier transform infrared (FTIR), UV absorption and exchangeable proton NMR spectroscopies have been used to study the formation and stability of two intramolecular pH-dependent triple helices composed by a chimeric 29mer DNA-RNA (DNA double strand and RNA third strand) or by the analogous 29mer RNA. In both cases decrease of pH induces formation of a triple helical structure containing either rU*dA.dT and rC+*dG.dC or rU*rA.rU and rC+*rG.rC triplets. FTIR spectroscopy shows that exclusively N-type sugars are present in the triple helix formed by the 29mer RNA while both N- and S-type sugars are detected in the case of the chimeric 29mer DNA-RNA triple helix. Triple helix formation with the third strand RNA and the duplex as DNA appears to be associated with the conversion of the duplex part from a B-form secondary structure to one which contains partly A-form sugars. Thermal denaturation experiments followed by UV spectroscopy show that a major stabilization occurs upon formation of the triple helices. Monophasic melting curves indicate a simultaneous disruption of the Hoogsteen and Watson-Crick hydrogen bonds in the intramolecular triplexes when the temperature is increased. This is in agreement with imino proton NMR spectra...Continue Reading

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