H-1-NMR STUDY OF THE BASE-PAIRING REACTIONS OF D(GGAATTCC) - SALT EFFECTS ON THE EQUILIBRIA AND KINETICS OF STRAND ASSOCIATION
H-1-NMR STUDY OF THE BASE-PAIRING REACTIONS OF D(GGAATTCC) - SALT EFFECTS ON THE EQUILIBRIA AND KINETICS OF STRAND ASSOCIATION
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DOI:
10.1021/bi00217a026
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发表时间:
1991-01-22
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2.9
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BLOOMFIELD, VA
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作者:
BRAUNLIN, WH;BLOOMFIELD, VA
Previously, we examined the imino proton relaxation of d(GGAATTCC) in order to characterize salt and polyamine effects on the base-pair opening kinetics of this oligonucleotide [Braunlin, W. H., & Bloomfield, V. A. (1988) Biochemistry 27, 1184-1191]. Here, we report salt-dependent measurements of the NMR behavior of the nonexchangeable base proton resonances of d(GGAATTCC). From chemical shift measurements, we find an unexpectedly large salt dependence of K(a), the equilibrium constant for helix association. A total of 1.8 +/- 0.3 sodium ions are thermodynamically released upon dissociation of the octamer duplex. Most of the salt dependence of the equilibrium constant can be traced to a large salt dependence of the association rate. Thus, 1.4 +/- 0.2 sodium ions associate during the rate-limiting step of helix association. In agreement with our previous imino proton results, we also find a significant salt dependence of the duplex dissociation rate. Activation energies for helix association are very small, and possibly negative; most of the temperature dependence of the association equilibrium can be traced to a large activation energy (approximately 50 kcal/mol) for duplex dissociation.