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Kanika Kole1, Jaydeb Chakrabarti1,2
1Department of Physics of Complex Systems, S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences, Block-JD, Sector-III, Salt Lake, Kolkata 700106, India.
The journal of physical chemistry. B
|September 16, 2025
概括
基因对可以在沃森-克里克 (WC) 和胡格斯 (HG) 配置之间切换. 蛋白质的存在降低了WC到HG过渡的能量屏障,使HG对更稳定.
科学领域:
- 分子生物学分子生物学
- 生物物理学的生物物理.
- 计算化学计算化学
背景情况:
- 基因配对对是遗传信息存储和传输的基础.
- 像Hoogsteen (HG) 这样的替代基配对模式,可以与标准的Watson-Crick (WC) 配对一起发生.
- 蛋白质对WC-HG基对转换的影响还不太清楚.
研究的目的:
- 为了研究DNA中WC-HG基对过渡的自由能量场景.
- 开发和验证一个计算协议,用于研究基对转换,使用温和的元动力学.
- 为了确定蛋白质存在对WC和HG基对稳定性和过渡动态的影响.
主要方法:
- 采用了温和元动力学 (WT-MetaD) 模拟方法.
- 利用糖化角 (χ) 作为一个集体变量 (CV) 来定义过渡路径.
- 与现有的实验和模拟数据对裸体DNA的协议进行了验证.
主要成果:
- 沃森-克里克 (WC) 到胡格斯 (HG) 基对过渡的能量屏障在蛋白质的存在下显著下降至~8kcal/mol,与裸体DNA相比.
- 在蛋白质的存在下,HG基对变得比WC基对稳定大约4.0kcal/mol.
- 反向的HG到WC过渡表现出~12kcal/mol的增加的能量屏障,HG对保持~3kcal/mol更稳定.
结论:
- 蛋白质结合可以显著改变DNA基对过渡的能量.
- 该研究提供了一个验证的计算框架,用于在基对水平上调查蛋白质-DNA相互作用.
- 这些发现对理解DNA结构动力学和蛋白质识别机制有意义.
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