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ArticleNucleic acids research2018

How does temperature impact the conformation of single DNA molecules below melting temperature?

Annaël Brunet, Laurence Salomé, Philippe Rousseau, Nicolas Destainville, Manoel Manghi, Catherine Tardin

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Article in Nucleic acids research, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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6 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Annaël BrunetInstitut de Pharmacologie et de Biologie Structurale, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, UPS, France.
Laurence SaloméInstitut de Pharmacologie et de Biologie Structurale, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, UPS, France.
Philippe RousseauLaboratoire de Microbiologie et Génétique Moléculaires (LMGM), Centre de Biologie Intégrative (CBI), Université de Toulouse, CNRS, UPS, France.
Nicolas DestainvilleLaboratoire de Physique Théorique (IRSAMC), Université de Toulouse, CNRS, Toulouse, France.
Manoel ManghiLaboratoire de Physique Théorique (IRSAMC), Université de Toulouse, CNRS, Toulouse, France.
Catherine TardinInstitut de Pharmacologie et de Biologie Structurale, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, UPS, France.
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique · FRInstitut de Recherche sur les Systèmes Atomiques et Moléculaires Complexes · FRInstitut de Pharmacologie et de Biologie Structurale · FRUniversité Fédérale de Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées · FR

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The double stranded DNA molecule undergoes drastic structural changes during biological processes such as transcription during which it opens locally under the action of RNA polymerases. Local spontaneous denaturation could contribute to this mechanism by promoting it. Supporting this idea, different biophysical studies have found an unexpected increase in the flexibility of DNA molecules with various sequences as a function of the temperature, which would be consistent with the formation of a growing number of locally denatured sequences. Here, we take advantage of our capacity to detect subtle changes occurring on DNA by using high throughput tethered particle motion to question the existence of bubbles in double stranded DNA under physiological salt conditions through their conformational impact on DNA molecules ranging from several hundreds to thousands of base pairs. Our results strikingly differ from previously published ones, as we do not detect any unexpected change in DNA flexibility below melting temperature. Instead, we measure a bending modulus that remains stable with temperature as expected for intact double stranded DNA.

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TemperatureBuffersDNAMotionNucleic Acid ConformationTransition TemperatureViscosityBuffersDNA

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PMID29294104
PMCPMC5829751
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