Unusual conformational effect exerted by Z-DNA upon its neighboring sequences - PubMed (original) (raw)
Unusual conformational effect exerted by Z-DNA upon its neighboring sequences
T Kohwi-Shigematsu et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1987 Apr.
Abstract
Supercoiled plasmid DNA harboring an insert of (dG-dC)16, a sequence known to form Z-DNA upon negative supercoiling, was reacted with chloroacetaldehyde. Chloroacetaldehyde, like bromoacetaldehyde, was found to be a specific probe for detecting unpaired DNA bases in supercoiled plasmid DNA. Under torsional stress (at bacterial superhelical density), chloroacetaldehyde reacted at multiple discrete regions within the neighboring sequences of the (dG-dC)16 insert. When the plasmid population was considered as a whole, the distribution of the chemically reactive bases exhibited a pattern of inversion symmetry with the center of inversion in the middle of the (dG-dC)16 insert. However, when a single supercoiled plasmid molecule was considered, chloroacetaldehyde reacted with only one of the neighboring sequences, either 5' or 3' of the (dG-dC)16 insert, but not with both. The possibility that the supercoiled plasmid DNA is in equilibrium with these two structural forms is discussed.
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