کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
8291958 1536478 2008 7 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
From quadruplex to helix and back: Meta-stable states can move through a cycle of conformational changes
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم زیستی و بیوفناوری بیوشیمی، ژنتیک و زیست شناسی مولکولی زیست شیمی
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From quadruplex to helix and back: Meta-stable states can move through a cycle of conformational changes
چکیده انگلیسی
Strand displacement cycles can be driven by sequential addition of short oligonucleotide sequences. Successive inter- and intra-molecular interactions based on the rules of Watson-Crick base pairing allow us to design self-assembling molecular systems with predictable folding pathways and conformational changes. Here we present a particular strand displacement cycle that starts from a tethered quadruplex-forming sequence from the human telomere repeat (T2AG3)4 that forms a G-quartet within a stem-loop structure. Adding an almost matching single strand converts the four-stranded section into a defective double helix. This is the first step of the cycle. The subsequent addition of a “fuel strand” removes the single strand from the loop sequence in favor of a perfect double helix. This displacement frees the hairpin-loop to go back to its initial state. Analysis of this cycle, that resembles an enzyme-substrate pathway as far as the initial state will be regained at the end of the cycle, advances our understanding of the interchanges between meta-stable states that underlie some fundamental steps in molecular biology, and allow for the construction of nano-molecular machines.
ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Archives of Biochemistry and Biophysics - Volume 474, Issue 1, 1 June 2008, Pages 8-14
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