PREPARATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF FORM-V DNA, THE DUPLEX DNA RESULTING FROM ASSOCIATION OF COMPLEMENTARY, CIRCULAR SINGLE-STRANDED-DNA
PREPARATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF FORM-V DNA, THE DUPLEX DNA RESULTING FROM ASSOCIATION OF COMPLEMENTARY, CIRCULAR SINGLE-STRANDED-DNA
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DOI:
10.1016/0022-2836(79)90299-7
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发表时间:
1979-01-01
影响因子:
5.6
通讯作者:
WEISSMANN, C
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作者:
STETTLER, UH;WEBER, H;WEISSMANN, C
Complementary circular single strands of [bacterial] plasmid P.beta.G or bacteriophage PM2 DNA but not of single-stranded .vphi.X174 DNA associate under hybridisation conditions, giving rise to a 2-stranded complex. This DNA, which is called form V, has well-defined physico-chemical properties. It sediments as a sharp peak in neutral sucrose gradients; its electrophoretic mobility in agarose gels is between that of covalently closed (form I) and denatured DNA. By EM, form V appears as highly folded duplex molecules indistinguishable from form I. Increasing concentrations of ethidium bromide which lead to relaxation and recoiling of form I DNA have no comparable effect upon form V. At 260 nm form V P.beta.G DNA has a hypochromicity of 18.6%, as compared to 23.4% in the case of P.beta.G form II DNA and 10.5% in the case of single-stranded .vphi.X174 DNA. The thermal melting of form V is non-cooperative with gradual increase in absorbance similar to that of single-stranded DNA. The circular dichroism spectrum of form V DNA differs from that of form I, circular nicked (form II) and single-stranded .vphi.X174 DNA in that it shows a negative band at 295 nm and a shift for the main positive band from 273 to 266 nm. Form V apparently consists of right-handed Watson-Crick type double-helices which are compensated by an equal number of left-handed duplex turns and negative supercoils. We cannot decide whether left-handed duplex turns are stabilized by base-stacking and H bonding, as for example in the models described by others, or whether they are merely compensatory turns without inherent stability.