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Published on: September 21, 2017
Properties of triple helices formed by parallel-stranded hairpins containing 8-aminopurines
Anna Aviñó1, Miriam Frieden, Juan Carlos Morales
1Cygene Spain S.L., Parc Científic de Barcelona, Baldiri i Reixac 10-12, E-08028 Barcelona, Spain.
Abstract:
Parallel-stranded hairpins with a polypyrimidine sequence linked to a complementary purine carrying 8-aminopurines such as 8-aminoadenine, 8-aminoguanine and 8-aminohypoxanthine bind polypyrimidine sequences complementary (in an antiparallel sense) to the purine part by a triple helix. The relative stabilities of triplexes were assessed by UV-absorption melting experiments as a function of pH and salt concentration. Hairpins carrying 8-aminopurines give very stable triple helical structures even at neutral pH, as confirmed by gel-shift experiments, circular dichroism and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. The modified hairpins may be redesigned to cope with small interruptions in the polypyrimidine target sequence.
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