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Lutan Liu1, Byul G Kim1, Ujala Feroze1
1Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto , 144 College Street, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3M2, Canada.
Journal of the American Chemical Society
|January 23, 2018
Resumen
Los i-motivos del ADN, cruciales para la regulación del genoma y la enfermedad, se forman sin cambios de volumen o compresibilidad. Su formación libera counteriones, alterando el ADN
Área de la Ciencia:
- La bioquímica
- Biología estructural
- La genómica
Sus antecedentes:
- Las estructuras de ADN no canónicas como los cuádruplexos G y los motivos i desempeñan funciones reguladoras en el genoma y están vinculadas a enfermedades.
- Comprender las fuerzas que estabilizan estas estructuras es clave para controlar su formación en sitios genómicos específicos.
Objetivo del estudio:
- Investigar los cambios de hidratación y atmósfera iónica durante la formación de i-motif en una secuencia de ADN rica en C del promotor del oncogén c-MYC humano.
- Caracterizar las propiedades físicas de la formación de i-motif utilizando experimentos de fusión acústicos, densimétricos y UV dependientes del pH bajo presión elevada.
Principales métodos:
- Mediciones acústicas y densimétricas dependientes del pH.
- Experimentos de fusión con rayos UV a altas presiones.
- Análisis comparativo de las secuencias de ADN formadoras (ODN) y no formadoras (ODN1, ODN2).
Principales resultados:
- La formación de i-motif por el ADN promotor de c-MYC (ODN) no alteró significativamente el volumen o la compresibilidad.
- Los datos volumétricos y de compresibilidad sugieren una compensación entre las contribuciones intrínsecas y de hidratación.
- La protonación de citosina durante la formación de i-motif conduce a la liberación de la mayoría de los contraiones, disminuyendo la naturaleza polielectrolita del ADN.
Conclusiones:
- La formación de i-motivos de ADN implica una interacción compleja de hidratación y cambios estructurales intrínsecos, lo que resulta en ningún cambio de volumen neto.
- La liberación de contraiones durante la formación de i-motif tiene implicaciones significativas para las interacciones ADN-proteína y la regulación genómica.
- Estos hallazgos proporcionan información sobre los fundamentos biofísicos de las estructuras de i-motif y sus roles potenciales en la enfermedad.
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