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G-cuadruplexos de cadena paralela de tipo hélice en el promotor c-myc humano
Anh Tuân Phan1, Yasha S Modi, Dinshaw J Patel
1Structural Biology Program, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York 10021, USA. phantuan@mskcc.org
Journal of the American Chemical Society
|July 15, 2004
Resumen
El c-myc oncogénico c-myc.
Área de la Ciencia:
- La bioquímica es la bioquímica.
- Biología Molecular Biología Molecular
- Biología Estructural Biología estructural.
Sus antecedentes:
- El elemento III1 de hipersensibilidad a la nucleasa en el promotor c-myc es crucial para la activación transcripcional del oncogén c-myc.
- Este elemento es un objetivo potencial anticancerígeno debido a su papel en la regulación de la expresión de c-myc.
- Estudios anteriores propusieron estructuras G-quadruplex antiparalelas (formas de cestas y sillas) para la hebra rica en guanina.
Objetivo del estudio:
- Investigar la conformación estructural de secuencias específicas ricas en G del elemento de hipersensibilidad de la nucleasa c-myc III1.1.
- Para determinar si estas secuencias forman estructuras de cadena paralela G-cuadruplex.
Principales métodos:
- Se empleó la espectroscopia de Resonancia Magnética Nuclear (RMN) para analizar las estructuras.
- Se sintetizaron y estudiaron dos secuencias específicas ricas en G en una solución que contenía potasio (K+).
Principales resultados:
- El estudio reveló que las dos secuencias ricas en G forman G-cuadruplexos de cadena paralela tipo hélice intramolecular.
- Estas estructuras presentan un núcleo de tres tetras G apiladas formadas por cuatro extensiones G paralelas con anti guaninas.
- Tres bucles inversores de cadena doble conectan las capas de tetragrama G, con longitudes de bucle de uno, dos o seis residuos.
Conclusiones:
- Los hallazgos demuestran la formación de G-cuadruplexos de cadena paralela por secuencias específicas de promotores c-myc.
- Estas estructuras paralelas difieren de los modelos antiparalelas propuestos anteriormente.
- La caracterización estructural proporciona información sobre la formación de G-cuadruplex en una región promotora biológicamente relevante.
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