CIRCULAR DIFFERENTIAL SCATTERING AND CIRCULAR DIFFERENTIAL ABSORPTION OF DNA-PROTEIN CONDENSATES AND OF DYES BOUND TO DNA-PROTEIN CONDENSATES
CIRCULAR DIFFERENTIAL SCATTERING AND CIRCULAR DIFFERENTIAL ABSORPTION OF DNA-PROTEIN CONDENSATES AND OF DYES BOUND TO DNA-PROTEIN CONDENSATES
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DOI:
10.1021/bi00372a004
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发表时间:
1986-12-02
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影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
TINOCO, I
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作者:
PHILLIPS, CL;MICKOLS, WE;TINOCO, I
DNA-protein condensates that give positive and negative .psi.-type circular dichroism (CD) spectra (.psi. condensates) bind intercalative and nonintercalative dyes. CD depends both on circular differential scattering and on circular differential absorption; scattering-corrected CD measurements are approximations to circular differential absorption. The circular differential scattering-corrected CD patterns observed in the DNA absorption band of .psi. condensates are mimicked in the induced CD band of intercalators bound to .psi. condensates. The induced scattering-corrected CD and circular differential scattering patterns of the groove-binding dye Hoechst 33342 bound to .psi. condensates are the inverse of the patterns seen with intercalative dyes, whereas the groove-binding dye manganese(III)meso-tetrakis(4-N-methylpyridyl)porphine [MnIIITMpyP-4] shows no significant induced CD patterns. The large circular differential scattering and scattering-corrected CD bands are interpreted as resulting from long-range chiral packing, rather than near-neighbor short-range interactions. Dyes intercalated into the DNA of the .psi. condensates have the same type of long-range chiral packing as the DNA bases. Therefore, the .psi.-type CD spectra seen in the UV spectra originating from the long-range packing of the DNA bases are also observed in the visible spectra when dyes are intercalated in the DNA of the .psi. condensates. Our interpretation comes from the observation that the induced circular differential scattering and circular differential absorption of the dye boundto the .psi. condensates depend only upon the sign of the circular differential absorption and the pattern of the circular differential scattering of the .psi. condensates without bound dye. The variation in the induced CD patterns of the two groove-binding dyes is attributed to small but significant binding angle changes. Conventional CD signals from dyes bound to uncondensed DNA vary for different dyes and show no particular trends. Condensation of calf thymus DNA with poly(lysine-alanine) and polylysine produced positive and negative .psi.-type CD spectra, respectively. Five intercalative dyes and two dyes that bind in the minor groove of DNAwere used in this investigation: ethidium, proflavin, H2TMpyP-4, Cu11TMpyP-4, and NiIITMpyP-4 (intercalative dyes); MnIIITMpyP-4 and Hoechst 33342 (bind in the DNA minor groove).