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ArticleScientific reports2016

X-ray characterization of mesophases of human telomeric G-quadruplexes and other DNA analogues.

Selcuk Yasar, Jacob B Schimelman, M Alphan Aksoyoglu, Nicole F Steinmetz, Roger H French, V Adrian Parsegian, Rudolf Podgornik

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Selcuk YasarDepartment of Physics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, United States.
Jacob B SchimelmanDepartment of Macromolecular Science and Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, 10900 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, United States.
M Alphan AksoyogluDepartment of Physics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, United States.
Nicole F SteinmetzDepartment of Macromolecular Science and Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, 10900 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, United States.
Roger H FrenchDepartment of Macromolecular Science and Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, 10900 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, United States.
V Adrian ParsegianDepartment of Physics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, United States.
Rudolf PodgornikDepartment of Physics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, United States.
Case Western Reserve University · USUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst · US

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Abstract

Observed in the folds of guanine-rich oligonucleotides, non-canonical G-quadruplex structures are based on G-quartets formed by hydrogen bonding and cation-coordination of guanosines. In dilute 5'-guanosine monophosphate (GMP) solutions, G-quartets form by the self-assembly of four GMP nucleotides. We use x-ray diffraction to characterize the columnar liquid-crystalline mesophases in concentrated solutions of various model G-quadruplexes. We then probe the transitions between mesophases by varying the PEG solution osmotic pressure, thus mimicking in vivo molecular crowding conditions. Using the GMP-quadruplex, built by the stacking of G-quartets with no covalent linking between them, as the baseline, we report the liquid-crystalline phase behaviors of two other related G-quadruplexes: (i) the intramolecular parallel-stranded G-quadruplex formed by the 22-mer four-repeat human telomeric sequence AG3(TTAG3)3 and (ii) the intermolecular parallel-stranded G-quadruplex formed by the TG4T oligonucleotides. Finally, we compare the mesophases of the G-quadruplexes, under PEG-induced crowding conditions, with the corresponding mesophases of the canonical duplex and triplex DNA analogues.

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G-QuadruplexesBase SequenceCrystallography, X-RayHumansHydrogen BondingModels, MolecularTelomere

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PMID27249961
PMCPMC4890033
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