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ArticleJournal of the American Chemical Society2012

Probing transient Hoogsteen hydrogen bonds in canonical duplex DNA using NMR relaxation dispersion and single-atom substitution.

Evgenia N Nikolova, Federico L Gottardo, Hashim M Al-Hashimi

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Article in Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 61 papers.

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3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Evgenia N NikolovaDepartment of Chemistry and Biophysics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109, USA.
Federico L Gottardo
Hashim M Al-Hashimi
University of Michigan–Ann Arbor · US

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Role of DNA structural dynamics in mutagenesis and oncogenesisR01GM089846 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI Hashim M Al-Hashimi · 2010 to 2026
$5.2M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM089846
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Nucleic acids transiently morph into alternative conformations that can be difficult to characterize at the atomic level by conventional methods because they exist for too little time and in too little abundance. We recently reported evidence for transient Hoogsteen (HG) base pairs in canonical B-DNA based on NMR carbon relaxation dispersion. While the carbon chemical shifts measured for the transient state were consistent with a syn orientation for the purine base, as expected for A(syn)•T(anti) and G(syn)•C(+)(anti) HG base pairing, HG type hydrogen bonding could only be inferred indirectly. Here, we develop two independent approaches for directly probing transient changes in N-H···N hydrogen bonds and apply them to the characterization of transient Hoogsteen type hydrogen bonds in canonical duplex DNA. The first approach takes advantage of the strong dependence of the imino nitrogen chemical shift on hydrogen bonding and involves measurement of R(1ρ) relaxation dispersion for the hydrogen-bond donor imino nitrogens in G and T residues. In the second approach, we assess the consequence of substituting the hydrogen-bond acceptor nitrogen (N7) with a carbon (C7H7) on both carbon and nitrogen relaxation dispersion data. Together, these data allow us to obtain direct evidence for transient Hoogsteen base pairs that are stabilized by N-H···N type hydrogen bonds in canonical duplex DNA. The methods introduced here greatly expand the utility of NMR in the structural characterization of transient states in nucleic acids.

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Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, BiomolecularDNAHydrogen BondingNucleic Acid ConformationDNA

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PMCPMC3791138
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