Structure elucidation of the Pribnow box consensus promoter sequence by racemic DNA crystallography
| Autor: | Pradeep K. Mandal, Ivan Huc, Gavin W. Collie, Brice Kauffmann, Suresh C. Srivastava |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Molecular 0301 basic medicine Base pair Oligonucleotides Biology Crystallography X-Ray 010402 general chemistry 01 natural sciences DNA sequencing 03 medical and health sciences chemistry.chemical_compound Structural Biology Consensus Sequence Genetics Consensus sequence Promoter Regions Genetic Base Pairing Sequence (medicine) Base Sequence Oligonucleotide Stereoisomerism DNA 0104 chemical sciences Crystallography 030104 developmental biology chemistry Pribnow box Nucleic Acid Conformation Crystallization Macromolecule |
| Zdroj: | Nucleic Acids Research |
| ISSN: | 1362-4962 0305-1048 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/nar/gkw367 |
| Popis: | It has previously been shown that the use of racemic mixtures of naturally chiral macromolecules such as protein and DNA can significantly aid the crystallogenesis process, thereby addressing one of the major bottlenecks to structure determination by X-ray crystallographic methods-that of crystal growth. Although previous studies have provided convincing evidence of the applicability of the racemic crystallization technique to DNA through the study of well-characterized DNA structures, we sought to apply this method to a historically challenging DNA sequence. For this purpose we chose a non-self-complementary DNA duplex containing the biologically-relevant Pribnow box consensus sequence 'TATAAT'. Four racemic crystal structures of this previously un-crystallizable DNA target are reported (with resolutions in the range of 1.65-2.3 Å), with further crystallographic studies and structural analysis providing insight into the racemic crystallization process as well as structural details of this highly pertinent DNA sequence. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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