Kan L S, Chandrasegaran S, Pulford S M, Miller P S
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1983 Jul;80(14):4263-5. doi: 10.1073/pnas.80.14.4263.
A decadeoxyribonucleotide, d(C-C-A-A-G-A-T-T-G-G) (I), forms a duplex in solution. The base pairing pattern in this duplex was studied by proton nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy. Five NH...N hydrogen-bonded proton resonances were observed, and they were assigned by nuclear Overhauser enhancement experiments as well as by comparison to five previously assigned NH...N hydrogen-bonded proton resonances in a self-complementary duplex of similar sequence, d(C-C-A-A-G-C-T-T-G-G) (II). The results suggest that the central -G-A- residues of I form G X A base pairs in the helical state. The fact that the H2 proton of A at the sixth position from the 5' end of I showed nuclear Overhauser enhancement when the NH...N hydrogen-bonded proton resonance of G X A was irradiated suggests that the bases of the G X A base pair are oriented in an anti-anti conformation. Comparison of the linewidths at the half height of the NH...N hydrogen-bonded proton resonances of I at 1 degree C suggest that the G X A base pairs are less stable than adjacent A X T base pairs.
十脱氧核糖核苷酸d(C-C-A-A-G-A-T-T-G-G)(I)在溶液中形成双链体。通过质子核磁共振光谱研究了该双链体中的碱基配对模式。观察到五个NH...N氢键质子共振,并通过核Overhauser增强实验以及与序列相似的自互补双链体d(C-C-A-A-G-C-T-T-G-G)(II)中五个先前确定的NH...N氢键质子共振进行比较来进行归属。结果表明,I的中心-G-A-残基在螺旋状态下形成G×A碱基对。当照射G×A的NH...N氢键质子共振时,I的5'端第六位的A的H2质子显示出核Overhauser增强,这一事实表明G×A碱基对的碱基呈反-反构象取向。在1℃下I的NH...N氢键质子共振半高宽的比较表明,G×A碱基对比相邻的A×T碱基对稳定性更低。