Cytosine ribose flexibility in DNA : a combined NMR 13C spin relaxation and molecular dynamics simulation study

  • Using (13)C spin relaxation NMR in combination with molecular dynamic (MD) simulations, we characterized internal motions within double-stranded DNA on the pico- to nano-second time scale. We found that the C-H vectors in all cytosine ribose moieties within the Dickerson-Drew dodecamer (5´-CGCGAATTCGCG-3´) are subject to high amplitude motions, while the other nucleotides are essentially rigid. MD simulations showed that repuckering is a likely motional model for the cytosine ribose moiety. Repuckering occurs with a time constant of around 100 ps. Knowledge of DNA dynamics will contribute to our understanding of the recognition specificity of DNA-binding proteins such as cytosine methyltransferase.

Download full text files

Export metadata

Metadaten
Author:Elke Duchardt-FernerORCiD, Lennart Nilsson, Jürgen Schleucher
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-60285
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkn375
ISSN:1362-4962
ISSN:0305-1048
Pubmed Id:https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18579564
Parent Title (English):Nucleic acids research
Publisher:Oxford Univ. Press
Place of publication:Oxford
Document Type:Article
Language:English
Date of Publication (online):2008/11/12
Date of first Publication:2008/06/25
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2008/11/12
Volume:36
Issue:12
Page Number:9
First Page:4211
Last Page:4219
Note:
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/uk/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Source:Nucleic Acids Research 2008 July; 36(12): 4211–4219 ; Published online 2008 July. doi:10.1093/nar/gkn375
HeBIS-PPN:208745114
Institutes:Biowissenschaften / Biowissenschaften
Dewey Decimal Classification:5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 57 Biowissenschaften; Biologie / 570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie
Sammlungen:Sammlung Biologie / Sondersammelgebiets-Volltexte
Licence (German):License LogoCreative Commons - Namensnennung-Nicht kommerziell 2.0