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Single-Molecule Real-Time Visualization of DNA Unwinding by CMG Helicase
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[7-aminoactinomycin as a fluorescent probe for DNA unwinding and denaturation]
1Institute of Cell Biophysics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino, Moscow oblast, 142290 Russia.
Bioorganicheskaia Khimiia
|December 18, 2008
Abstract:
A fluorescent analogue of the antibiotic actinomycin D, 7-aminoactinomycin D (7AAMD), which is widely used in molecular biology, was shown by steady-state, polarization, and phase fluorescent spectroscopy to bind primarily in unwound regions of DNA with a concomitant increase in its emission intensity. The maximum emission intensity of 7AAMD is observed for denatured DNA. Thus, 7AAMD may serve as a good indicator of DNA unwinding, denaturation, and fragmentation.

