Wolfe A R, Meehan T
Division of Toxicology, University of California, San Francisco 94143.
Nucleic Acids Res. 1994 Aug 11;22(15):3147-50. doi: 10.1093/nar/22.15.3147.
The salt-induced formation of duplex structure (primarily hairpin loops) in denatured calf thymus DNA was monitored by measuring the decrease in absorbance at 260 nm as a function of increasing sodium ion concentration. It was found that this process was noncooperative and could be accurately described by the mass-action expression for the reversible formation of a binary complex: single strand (coil) + free sodium ion <==> hairpin (with associated sodium ion). The equilibrium constant for the transition was found to be 6 (M Na+)-1. The extrapolated absorbance at infinite salt concentration represents 11% hyperchromicity, which is one third of the hyperchromicity of denatured DNA in the absence of salt (36%).
通过测量260nm处吸光度随钠离子浓度增加的降低情况,监测了盐诱导变性小牛胸腺DNA中双链结构(主要是发夹环)的形成。发现该过程是非协同的,并且可以用二元复合物可逆形成的质量作用表达式准确描述:单链(线圈)+游离钠离子⇌发夹(与相关钠离子)。发现转变的平衡常数为6(M Na⁺)⁻¹。无限盐浓度下的外推吸光度代表11%的增色性,这是无盐时变性DNA增色性(36%)的三分之一。