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ArticleActa crystallographica. Section D, Structural biology2017

Mismodeled purines: implicit alternates and hidden Hoogsteens.

Bradley J Hintze, Jane S Richardson, David C Richardson

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Bradley J HintzeDepartment of Biochemistry, Duke University, Durham, NC 27710, USA.
Jane S RichardsonDepartment of Biochemistry, Duke University, Durham, NC 27710, USA.
David C RichardsonDepartment of Biochemistry, Duke University, Durham, NC 27710, USA.

Funding

PROJECT 5 - DUKE - STRUCTURE VALIDATION AND IMPROVEMENT FOR PROTEINS AND N. ACIDSP01GM063210 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIF-LAWRENC BERKELEY LAB · PI ADAMS, PAUL DAVID · 2001 to 2021
$33.5M
MolProbity Validation & Corrections: for Crystallography, PDB & BiomedicineR01GM073919 · NIGMS · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI RICHARDSON, DAVID CLAUDE · 2006 to 2018
$3.7M
Agilent Foundation 3216National Institutes of Health, National Institute of General Medical Sciences PO1-GM063210National Institutes of Health, National Institute of General Medical Sciences R01-GM073919NIGMS NIH HHS P01 GM063210NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM073919
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Abstract

Hoogsteen base pairs are seen in DNA crystal structures, but only rarely. This study tests whether Hoogsteens or other syn purines are either under-modeled or over-modeled, which are known problems for rare conformations. Candidate purines needing a syn/anti 180° flip were identified by diagnostic patterns of difference electron-density peaks. Manual inspection narrowed 105 flip candidates to 20 convincing cases, all at ≤2.7 Å resolution. Rebuilding and refinement confirmed that 14 of these were authentic purine flips. Seven examples are modeled as Watson-Crick base pairs but should be Hoogsteens (commonest at duplex termini), and three had the opposite issue. Syn/anti flips were also needed for some single-stranded purines. Five of the 20 convincing cases arose from an unmodeled alternate duplex running in the opposite direction. These are in semi-palindromic DNA sequences bound by a homodimeric protein and show flipped-purine-like difference peaks at residues where the palindrome is imperfect. This study documents types of incorrect modeling which are worth avoiding. However, the primary conclusions are that such mistakes are infrequent, the bias towards fitting anti purines is very slight, and the occurrence rate of Hoogsteen base pairs in DNA crystal structures remains unchanged from earlier estimates at ∼0.3%.

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Base PairingDNAHydrogen BondingModels, MolecularNucleic Acid ConformationPurinesSoftwareDNAPurinesDNA structureHoogsteen base pairpurinesyn/anti flip

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PMID28994414
PMCPMC5633910

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