在人类c-myc促进体中的螺旋类型平行链的G-四重复合体
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
概括
在c-myc的瘤基因.
科学领域:
- 生物化学 生物化学
- 分子生物学分子生物学
- 结构生物学 结构生物学
背景情况:
- 在c-myc促进体中的核酶过敏性元素III1对于c-myc瘤基因的转录激活至关重要.
- 这种元素是潜在的抗癌点,因为它在调节c-myc表达中的作用.
- 之前的研究为富含关氨酸的链提出了反平行G-quadruplex结构 (篮子和椅子形式).
研究的目的:
- 调查来自c-myc核酶-过敏元素III1.1.的特定G丰富序列的结构构造.
- 为了确定这些序列是否形成平行链的G-四重复结构.
主要方法:
- 核磁共振 (NMR) 光谱学被用来分析结构.
- 在含 (K+) 溶液中合成和研究了两种特定的富G序列.
主要成果:
- 这项研究表明,这两个富G的序列形成了分子内螺旋类型的平行链的G四复合体.
- 这些结构具有由四个平行G-stretch与抗瓜宁组成的三个堆叠的G-tetrads组成的核心.
- 三个双链反转环连接G-四边形层,循环长度为一个,两个或六个残余.
结论:
- 这些发现证明了由特定的c-myc促进子序列形成平行链的G-四重复.
- 这些平行结构不同于之前提出的反平行模型.
- 结构性表征提供了对生物相关促进体区域G-四重复形成的见解.
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