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ArticleBiophysical journal2014

Modeling DNA thermodynamics under torsional stress.

Qian Wang, B Montgomery Pettitt

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Article in Biophysical journal, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Nonequilibrium dynamics and action at a distance in transcriptionally driven DNA supercoiling.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021
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  7. Sequence Affects the Cyclization of DNA Minicircles.The journal of physical chemistry letters · 2016
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5 · Who and what money

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2 authors.

Qian WangDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Sealy Center for Structural Biology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas.
B Montgomery PettittDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Sealy Center for Structural Biology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas. Electronic address: mpettitt@utmb.edu.

Funding

DNA Near Surfaces in Saline Solution: Theory for DesignR01GM066813 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MED BR GALVESTON · PI PETTITT, BERNARD MONTGOMERY · 2004 to 2017
$3.0M
NIGMS NIH HHS GM 066813NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM066813
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Negatively twisted DNA is essential to many biological functions. Due to torsional stress, duplex DNA can have local, sequence-dependent structural defects. In this work, a thermodynamic model of DNA was built to qualitatively predict the local sequence-dependent mechanical instabilities under torsional stress. The results were compared to both simulation of a coarse-grained model and experiment results. By using the Kirkwood superposition approximation, we built an analytical model to represent the free energy difference ΔW of a hydrogen-bonded basepair between the B-form helical state and the basepair opened (or locally melted) state, within a given sequence under torsional stress. We showed that ΔW can be well approximated by two-body interactions with its nearest-sequence-neighbor basepairs plus a free energy correction due to long-range correlations. This model is capable of rapidly predicting the position and thermodynamics of local defects in a given sequence. The result qualitatively matches with an in vitro experiment for a long DNA sequence (>4000 basepairs). The 12 parameters used in this model can be further quantitatively refined when more experimental data are available.

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Models, MolecularStress, MechanicalBase PairingBase SequenceDNAOsmolar ConcentrationRotationTemperatureThermodynamicsDNA

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PMID24606942
PMCPMC4026789

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