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Papers by Philip Borer

Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, 1995

An analysis of errors has been done with the Monte Carlo method for natural abundance 13C-NMR rel... more An analysis of errors has been done with the Monte Carlo method for natural abundance 13C-NMR relaxation studies of a DNA duplex. Repeated measurements of the longitudinal relaxation time, T1, and the heteronuclear NOE were made at 90.6 MHz on the duplexed DNA pentanucleotide, [d(TCGCG)]2. The deviations averaged over all carbons were 13% for T1 and 9% for NOE. These relative deviations were applied to generate 100 values of T1 and NOE with normal distributions about the measured mean values for each carbon. A new version of MOLDYN, called McMOLDYN, has been written, which was used to generate 100 values of T1 and NOE with normal distributions corresponding to the measured errors; the same error distributions were also applied to measurements at 125.8 MHz. The order parameter, S2, and the effective internal correlation time, tau e, in the Model-Free Approach have been optimized from the distributions simulated by McMOLDYN. McMOLDYN also permits the automated entry of multiple sets of initial guesses for the output parameters S2, tau e, and tau m. In addition, McMOLDYN adds cross-relaxation terms from chemical shift anisotropy, increasingly important as spectrometer magnetic fields get higher. Between the two parameters optimized, S2 has the smallest relative error, estimated at 15% on average, which means that S2 is a well-defined parameter. However, tau e is very poorly defined with the average relative error estimated 85%; it is typically found in the range of 30-300 ps.

Journal of Magnetic Resonance (1969), 1992

Journal of biomolecular NMR, 1998

The subject RNA models the binding site for the coat protein of the R17 virus, as well as the rib... more The subject RNA models the binding site for the coat protein of the R17 virus, as well as the ribosome recognition sequence for the R17 replicase gene. With an RNA of this size, overlaps among the sugar protons complicate assignments of the 1H NMR spectrum. The cross peaks that overlap significantly in 2D-NOE spectra can frequently be resolved by introducing a third, in our approach the double-quantum, frequency axis. In particular the planes in a 3D-NOE/2QC spectrum perpendicular to the 2Q axis are extremely useful, showing a highly informative repeating NOE-2Q pattern. In this experiment substantial J-coupling confers special advantages. This always occurs for geminal pairs (H5'/H5" for RNA plus H2'/H2" for DNA), as well as for H5/H6, for H3'/H4' in sugars with substantial populations of the N-pucker, for H1'/H2' for S-puckered sugars, and usually for H2'/H3'. For the 24-mer RNA hairpin the additional information from the 3D-NOE/2QC spectr...

Journal of magnetic resonance. Series B, 1996

A unique combination of aliasing and dispersive-absorptive (DA) phasing of two-quantum correlated... more A unique combination of aliasing and dispersive-absorptive (DA) phasing of two-quantum correlated spectroscopy (2 Q-COSY) NMR data is shown to enhance proton chemical-shift assignments in DNA oligonucleotides by (i) reducing the time necessary for acquiring NMR data or, alternatively, improving the spectral resolution in a given time, (ii) reducing the number of spectra necessary for NMR data processing and analysis, and (iii) increasing the complexity of oligonucleotide sequences and structures which are accessible to 2D NMR analysis. Aliasing allows a reduction in the size of the acquired data without significant risk of losing information. Phasing the 2Q-COSY dispersive in the F2 dimension reduces the primary antiphase doublet into a pseudo-singlet and increases the apparent signal-to-noise. A single 2Q-COSY spectrum can provide an amount of chemical-shift information comparable to that from a series of COSY, relayed-COSY, and/or spin-lock COSY spectra optimized for various coupl...

Tetrahedron, 2001

AbstractÐSyntheses of the ®ve regioselectively 13 C 1 -labeled 5-O-benzyl-2-deoxyribonolactones a... more AbstractÐSyntheses of the ®ve regioselectively 13 C 1 -labeled 5-O-benzyl-2-deoxyribonolactones are described. 13 C 1 -Labeled deoxyribonolactones were prepared by addition of KCN to epoxides 7 and subsequent lactonization of the resulting nitriles. Integration of the independent schemes leading to the ®ve isotopomers of 9 results in an ef®cient and cost effective preparation of labeled mixtures of 13 C mono-labeled deoxyribonolactones. These mixtures are the pivotal intermediates in the preparation of`population labeled' 13 C-labeled nucleoside phosphoramidites for solid-phase oligonucleotide synthesis. q

Nucleosides, Nucleotides & Nucleic Acids, 2001

The synthesis of 1,3,5-13C3- and 2,4-13C2-labeled 5-O-bromobenzyl-2-deoxyribonolactones 2, precur... more The synthesis of 1,3,5-13C3- and 2,4-13C2-labeled 5-O-bromobenzyl-2-deoxyribonolactones 2, precursors to 13C-enriched nucleoside phosphoramidites for solid-phase synthesis of DNA oligonucletides, is described. An equimolar combination of these two multiply labeled lactones affords a "population-labeled" mixture of isotopomers which exhibits an approximately 50-fold increase in the sensitivity of 13C-NMR compared to natural abundance measurements. The 13C-13C 2-bond and 4-bond coupling constants are reported for the lactones; all are <2Hz, confirming that this labeling scheme should be especially useful for NMR-relaxation measurements.

Nucleic Acids Research, 1988

Two DNA hexadecamers containing one central 5'-GC-3' base step have been examined by footprinting... more Two DNA hexadecamers containing one central 5'-GC-3' base step have been examined by footprinting methodology in the presence and absence of actinomycin D. The results of these studies, coupled with imino proton NMR measurements indicate that the antitumor drug causes a change in DNA conformation at a distance from the actinomycin intercalation site in a molecule of sequence d[ATATATAGCTATATAT] that does not occur in d (AAAAAAAGCTTTTTTT]. The experiments demonstrate that DNase I rate enhancements associated with actinomycin D binding are caused by ligand alteration of equilibrium DNA structure.

Nature New Biology, 1973

A SIMPLE method for estimating the most stable secondary structure of an RNA molecule from its se... more A SIMPLE method for estimating the most stable secondary structure of an RNA molecule from its sequence was proposed earlier1. This method can be used for predicting and assessing possible secondary structures for recently determined RNA sequences24. New experimental58 ...

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Magnetic Resonance in Chemistry, 1992

... Improved Strategy for Sequence-Specific 3C NMR Assignments in [d(CGTACGTACG)], Ke Yu Wang, Gr... more ... Improved Strategy for Sequence-Specific 3C NMR Assignments in [d(CGTACGTACG)], Ke Yu Wang, Gregory J. Hetiron, Karl D. Bishop and George C. Levy ... Soc. 108, 2093 (1986). 4. S. R.LaPlante, J. Ashcroft, D. Cowburn, G. C. Levy and PN Borer, J. Biomol. Srrucr. Dyn. ...

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Journal of the American Chemical Society, 1989

... (40) Lloyd, D.; Gosney, I.; Ormiston, RA ... Sequence-Specific I3C NMR Assignment of Nonproto... more ... (40) Lloyd, D.; Gosney, I.; Ormiston, RA ... Sequence-Specific I3C NMR Assignment of Nonprotonated Carbons in [d(TAGCGCTA)I2 Using Proton Detection Joseph Ashcroft,la Steven R. LaPlante,lb Philip N. Borer,Ib and David Cowburn**la The Rockefeller University, 1230 York ...

Journal of Molecular Biology, 1998

An NMR-based structure is presented for a 20 mer hairpin model of the SL3 stem-loop from the HIV-... more An NMR-based structure is presented for a 20 mer hairpin model of the SL3 stem-loop from the HIV-1 packaging signal. The stem has an A-family structure. However, the GGAG tetraloop appears to be flexible with the second (G10) and fourth (G12) bases extruded from the normal stacking arrangement. The A-base (A11) occupies a cavity large enough for it to jump rapidly between stacking upon G9 (in the loop) and G13 (from the base-pair adjacent to the loop). The H-bonding loci of G10, A11, and G12 are unoccupied in the free RNA structure. The loop should be easily adaptable to binding by the HIV-1 nucleocapsid protein or loop receptors.

Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, 1988

ABSTRACT A statistical method, Bayes Maximum Likelihood, has been applied to the classification o... more ABSTRACT A statistical method, Bayes Maximum Likelihood, has been applied to the classification of base 13C NMR resonances in DNA oligomers. An accuracy of 100% for carbon class discrimination was achieved for a preliminary training set of four oligomers using the following four parameters: (1) the chemical shift; (2) the temperature at which the spectrum was obtained; (3) the difference in chemical shift from the C5 resonances; and (4) a sequence factor representing the neighboring nucleotides. Classification of a fifth oligomer, previously assigned and not contained in the original training set, gave reasonable carbon class assignments.

Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics, 1989

A multivariate data-representation of a portion of the H-NOESY spectrum of an RNA octamer duplex ... more A multivariate data-representation of a portion of the H-NOESY spectrum of an RNA octamer duplex was used to explore the possibility of using Principal Component Analysis and Partial Least Squares Discrimination for pattern recognition. In this case, it is found that the methods can: (i) distinguish slices containing signal from those containing only noise, (ii) locate slices containing overlapping signals, and (iii) in some cases to segregate slices with unique aspects such as those from terminal nucleotides, overlapping signals, purine-H8, pyrimidine-H6 and adenine-H2 containing slices. These properties can easily be included in a scheme to automate spectral analysis. The formulation described here does not distinguish patterns needed to automate sequential assignment of resonances in NOESY spectra of RNA.

Biophysical Chemistry, 2004

The antibiotic drug, netropsin, was complexed with the DNA oligonucleotide duplex [d(GGTATACC)]2 ... more The antibiotic drug, netropsin, was complexed with the DNA oligonucleotide duplex [d(GGTATACC)]2 to monitor drug 13C NMR chemical shifts changes. The binding mode of netropsin to the minor groove of DNA is well-known, and served as a good model for evaluating the relative sensitivity of 13C chemical shifts to hydrogen bonding. Large downfield shifts were observed for four resonances of carbons that neighbor sites which are known to form hydrogen bond interactions with the DNA minor groove. Many of the remaining resonances of netropsin exhibit shielding or relatively smaller deshielding changes. Based on the model system presented here, large deshielding NMR shift changes of a ligand upon macromolecule binding can likely be attributed to hydrogen bond formation at nearby sites.

Biochemistry, 1995

The three-dimensional conformation of a 24-nucleotide variant of the RNA binding sequence for the... more The three-dimensional conformation of a 24-nucleotide variant of the RNA binding sequence for the coat protein of bacteriophage R17 has been analyzed using NMR, molecular dynamics, and energy minimization. The imino proton spectrum is consistent with base pairing requirements for coat protein binding known from biochemical studies. All 185 of the nonexchangeable protons were assigned using a variety of homonuclear 2D and 3D NMR methods. Measurements of nuclear Overhauser enhancements and two-quantum correlations were made at 500 MHz. New procedures were developed to characterize as many resonances as possible, including deconvolution and path analysis methods. An average of 21 distance constraints per residue were used in molecular dynamics calculations to obtain preliminary folded structures for residues 3-21. The unpaired A8 residue is stacked in the stem, and the entire region from G7 to C15 in the upper stem and loop appears to be flexible. Several of these residues have a large fraction of S-puckered ribose rings, rather than the N-forms characteristic of RNA duplexes. There is considerable variation in the low-energy loop conformations that satisfy the distance constraints at this preliminary level of refinement. The Shine-Dalgarno ribosome binding site is exposed, and only two apparently weak base pairs would have to break for the 16S ribosomal RNA to bind and the ribosome to initiate translation of the replicase gene. Although the loop form must be regarded as tentative, the known interaction sites with the coat protein are easily accessible from the major groove side of the loop.

Biochemistry, 1988

Page 1. 7902 Biochemistry 1988, 27, 7902-7909 13C NMR of the Bases of Three DNA Oligonucleotide D... more Page 1. 7902 Biochemistry 1988, 27, 7902-7909 13C NMR of the Bases of Three DNA Oligonucleotide Duplexes: Assignment Methods and Structural Features? Steven R. LaPlante, Eilis A. Boudreau, Nil0 Zanatta,t George C. Levy, and Philip N. Borer* ...

Biochemistry, 1981

Comparative studies of the thermally induced helix--coil transition in ribosyl (A-G-C-U)2 and (A-... more Comparative studies of the thermally induced helix--coil transition in ribosyl (A-G-C-U)2 and (A-C-G-U)2 are described. Ordered structures form at low temperatures where the ribofuranose rings adopt the 3'-endo conformation and both oligomer helices have base-paired stacking arrangements qualitatively similar to the A-RNA family configuration. Especially for (A-C-G-U)2, there is a lack of quantitative agreement between the A-family base overlap and the 1H NMR data; ring-current and atomic diamagnetic anisotropies using A-form structures fail to predict five of the seven aromatic C--H resonances within 0.2 ppm. The NMR results are in better agreement with the A form for (A-G-C-U)2. For both oligomers, the changes in chemical shift for the anomeric (H1') resonances indicate substantial (greater than or equal to 20 degrees) changes in the average glycosidic torsion angle upon base pairing and stacking for the adenosine and cytidine residues; this angle in uridine and guanosine residues must change only slightly.

Biochemistry, 1975

1H nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectra of a self-complementary ribosyl hexanucleotide, A2GCU... more 1H nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectra of a self-complementary ribosyl hexanucleotide, A2GCU2, are investigated as a function of temperature and ionic strength in D2O. Seventeen nonexchangeable base and ribose-H1' resonances are resolved, and unequivocally assigned by a systematic comparison with the spectra of a series of oligonucleotide fragments of the A2GCU2 sequence varying in chain length from 2 to 5. Changes in the chemical shifts of the 17 protons from the hexamer as well as the six H1'-H2' coupling constants are followed throughout a thermally induced helix-coil transition. These sigma vs. T and J vs. T (degrees C) profiles indicate that the transition is not totally cooperative and that substantial populations of partially bonded structures must exist at intermediate temperatures, with the central G-C region being most stable. Transitions in chemical shift for protons in the same base pair exhibit considerable differences in their Tm values as the data reflect both thermodynamic and local magnetic field effects in the structural transition, which are not readily separable. However, an average of the Tm values agrees well with the value predicted from studies of the thermally induced transition made by optical methods. The values of J1'-2' for all six residues become very small (less than 1.5 Hz) at low temperatures indicating that C3'-endo is the most heavily populated furanose conformation in the helix. The sigma values of protons in the duplex were compared with those calculated from the ring current magnetic anisotropies of nearest and next-nearest neighboring bases using the geometrical parameters of the A'-RNA and B-DNA models. The sigma values of the base protons in the duplex calculated assuming the A'-RNA geometry agree (+/- approximately 0.1 ppm) with the observed values much more accurately than those calculated on the basis of B-DNA geometry. The measured sigma values of the H1' are not accurately predicted from either model. The synthesis of 35 mg of A2GCU2 using primer-dependent polynucleotide phosphorylase is described in detail with extensive discussion in the microfilm edition.