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Pant P, Aggarwal L. Assessing the DNA structural integrity via selective annihilation of Watson-Crick hydrogen bonds: Insights from molecular dynamics simulations. Biophys Chem 2022; 282:106758. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bpc.2021.106758] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/01/2021] [Revised: 12/09/2021] [Accepted: 12/30/2021] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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Bandyopadhyay D, Bhatnagar A, Jain S, Pratyaksh P. Selective Stabilization of Aspartic Acid Protonation State within a Given Protein Conformation Occurs via Specific "Molecular Association". J Phys Chem B 2020; 124:5350-5361. [PMID: 32484348 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.0c02629] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Proteins involved in proton-/electron-transfer processes often possess "functional" aspartates/aspartic acids (Asp) with variable protonation states. The mechanism of Asp protonation-deprotonation within proteins is unclear. Two questions were asked-the possible types of determinants responsible for Asp protonation-deprotonation and the spatial arrangements of the determinants leading to selective stabilization. The questions were analyzed using nine different solvent models, which scanned the complete protein dielectric range, and four protein models, which illustrated the spatial arrangements around Asp, termed as "molecular association". The methods employed were quantum chemical calculations and constant pH simulations. The types of the determinants identified were charge-charge interaction, H bonding, dipole-π interaction, extended electronic conjugation, dielectric effect, and solvent accessibility. All solvent-exposed Asp [buried fraction (BF) less than 0.5] were aspartates, and buried Asp were either aspartic acids or aspartates, each having a different "molecular association". The exposed aspartates were stabilized via a H-bonding network with bulk water, buried aspartates via salt bridge or, minimum, two intramolecular H bonds, and buried aspartic acids via, minimum, one intramolecular H bond. An "acid-alcohol pair" (involving Ser/Thr/Tyr) was a common determinant to any "functional" buried aspartate/aspartic acid. Higher energy "molecular associations" observed within proteins compared to those within water, presumably, indicated easy molecular restructuring and alteration of the Asp protonation states during a protein-mediated proton/electron transfer.
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- Debashree Bandyopadhyay
- Department of Biological Sciences, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, Hyderabad campus, Hyderabad 500078, India
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, Hyderabad campus, Hyderabad 500078, India
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, Hyderabad campus, Hyderabad 500078, India
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, Hyderabad campus, Hyderabad 500078, India
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Stacking geometry between two sheared Watson-Crick basepairs: Computational chemistry and bioinformatics based prediction. Biochim Biophys Acta Gen Subj 2020; 1864:129600. [PMID: 32179130 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbagen.2020.129600] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/04/2019] [Revised: 03/05/2020] [Accepted: 03/11/2020] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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BACKGROUND Molecular modeling of RNA double helices is possible using most probable values of basepair parameters obtained from crystal structure database. The A:A w:wC non-canonical basepair, involving Watson-Crick edges of two Adenines in cis orientation, appears quite frequently in database. Bimodal distribution of its Shear, due to two different H-bonding schemes, introduces the confusion in assigning most the probable value. Its effect is pronounced when the A:A w:wC basepair stacks on Sheared wobble G:U W:WC basepairs. METHODS We employed molecular dynamics simulations of three possible double helices with GAG, UAG and GAU sequence motifs at their centers and quantum chemical calculation for non-canonical A:A w:wC basepair stacked on G:U W:WC basepair. RESULTS We noticed stable structures of GAG motif with specifically negative Shear of the A:A basepair but stabilities of the other motifs were not found with A:A w:wC basepairing. Hybrid DFT-D and MP2 stacking energy analyses on dinucleotide step sequences, A:A w:wC::G:U W:WC and A:A w:wC::U:G W:WC reveal that viable orientation of A:A::G:U prefers one of the H-bonding modes with negative Shear, supported by crystal structure database. The A:A::U:G dinucleotide, however, prefers structure with only positive Shear. CONCLUSIONS The quantum chemical calculations explain why MD simulations of GAG sequence motif only appear stable. In the cases of the GAU and UAG motifs "tug of war" situation between positive and negative Shears of A:A w:wC basepair induces conformational plasticity. GENERAL SIGNIFICANCE We have projected comprehensive reason behind the promiscuous nature of A:A w:wC basepair which brings occasional structural plasticity.
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Fakhraee S, Souri M. Double hydrogen bond interaction in 7-azaindole complexes with protic solvents. J Mol Graph Model 2016; 70:45-53. [PMID: 27662235 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmgm.2016.06.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/14/2016] [Revised: 06/11/2016] [Accepted: 06/15/2016] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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The double hydrogen bond interaction between 7-azaindole (7AI) and protic solvents including methanol (MeOH), formamide (FM), formic acid (FA), pyridone (PY) and 7AI has been investigated as a proper model of mutations generated by tautomeric shifts in hydrogen-bonded bases of DNA. The results confirm electrostatic nature for all considered hydrogen bonds except for NH hydrogen bond in 7AI-FA. The largest interaction and polarization energies are obtained for 7AI-FA by means of energy decomposition analyses (EDA). The EDA results show an inverse competitive correlation between polarization and electrostatic components of attraction energy to determine the nature of hydrogen bond. The red-shifted hydrogen bonds are identified for all complexes as a result of hyperconjugation, except for 7AI-MeOH, which its blue-shift effect is attributed to the rehybridization dominating of CH bond. Investigation of aromaticity indices for 7AI complexes represents an increase in aromaticity of pentagonal ring and a decrease in hexagonal ring. Finally, the double hydrogen bond between 7AI and FA is identified as dominant interaction to achieve the tautomerization of 7AI in all applied approaches.
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- Sara Fakhraee
- Department of Chemistry, College of sciences, Payame Noor University, P.O. Box 19395-3697, Tehran, IRAN, Iran.
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- Department of Chemistry, College of sciences, Payame Noor University, P.O. Box 19395-3697, Tehran, IRAN, Iran
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Brovarets’ OO, Yurenko YP, Hovorun DM. The significant role of the intermolecular CH⋯O/N hydrogen bonds in governing the biologically important pairs of the DNA and RNA modified bases: a comprehensive theoretical investigation. J Biomol Struct Dyn 2014; 33:1624-52. [DOI: 10.1080/07391102.2014.968623] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Mukherjee S, Kundu S, Bhattacharyya D. Temperature effect on poly(dA).poly(dT): molecular dynamics simulation studies of polymeric and oligomeric constructs. J Comput Aided Mol Des 2014; 28:735-49. [PMID: 24865848 DOI: 10.1007/s10822-014-9755-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/18/2014] [Accepted: 05/19/2014] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Understanding unwinding and melting of double helical DNA is very important to characterize role of DNA in replication, transcription, translation etc. Sequence dependent melting thermodynamics is used extensively for detecting promoter regions but melting studies are generally done for short oligonucleotides. This study reports several molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of homopolymeric poly(dA).poly(dT) as regular oligonucleotide fragments as well as its corresponding polymeric constructs with water and charge-neutralizing counterions at different temperatures ranging from 300 to 400 K. We have eliminated the end-effect or terminal peeling propensity by employing MD simulation of DNA oligonucleotides in such a manner that gives rise to properties of polymeric DNA of infinite length. The dynamic properties such as basepairing and stacking geometry, groove width, backbone conformational parameters, bending, distribution of counter ions and number of hydrogen bonds of oligomeric and polymeric constructs of poly(dA).poly(dT) have been analyzed. The oligomer shows terminal fraying or peeling effect at temperatures above 340 K. The polymer shows partial melting at elevated temperatures although complete denaturations of basepairs do not take place. The analysis of cross strand hydrogen bonds shows that the number of N-H···O hydrogen bonds increases with increase in temperature while C-H···O hydrogen bond frequencies decrease with temperature. Restructuring of counterions in the minor groove with temperature appear as initiation of melting in duplex structures.
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- Sanchita Mukherjee
- Computational Science Division, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, 1/AF Bidhannagar, Kolkata, 700064, India
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Kailasam S, Bhattacharyya D, Bansal M. Sequence dependent variations in RNA duplex are related to non-canonical hydrogen bond interactions in dinucleotide steps. BMC Res Notes 2014; 7:83. [PMID: 24502340 PMCID: PMC3930292 DOI: 10.1186/1756-0500-7-83] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/17/2013] [Accepted: 01/31/2014] [Indexed: 01/21/2023] Open
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Background Sequence determines the three-dimensional structure of RNAs, and thereby plays an important role in carrying out various biological functions. RNA duplexes containing Watson-Crick (WC) basepairs, interspersed with non-Watson-Crick basepairs, are the dominant structural unit and form the scaffold for the 3-dimensional structure of RNA. It is therefore crucial to understand the geometric variation in the dinucleotide steps that form the helices. We have carried out a detailed analysis of the dinucleotide steps formed by AU and GC Watson-Crick basepairs in RNA structures (both free and protein bound) and compared the results to that seen in DNA. Further, the effect of protein binding on these steps was examined by comparing steps in free RNA structures with protein bound RNA structures. Results Characteristic sequence dependent geometries are observed for the RR, RY and YR type of dinucleotide steps in RNA. Their geometric parameters show correlated variations that are different from those observed in B-DNA helices. Subtle, but statistically significant differences are seen in roll, slide and average propeller-twist values, between the dinucleotide steps of free RNA and protein bound RNA structures. Many non-canonical cross-strand and intra-strand hydrogen bonds were identified that can stabilise the RNA dinucleotide steps, among which YR steps show presence of many new unreported interactions. Conclusions Our work provides for the first time a detailed analysis of the conformational preferences exhibited by Watson-Crick basepair containing steps in RNA double helices. Overall, the WC dinucleotide steps show considerable conformational variability. Furthermore, we have identified hydrogen bond interactions in several of the dinucleotide steps that could play a role in determining the preferred geometry, in addition to the intra-basepair hydrogen bonds and stacking interactions. Protein binding affects the conformation of the steps that are in direct contact, as well as allosterically affect the steps that are not in direct physical contact.
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- Molecular Biophysics Unit, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012, India.
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Mukherjee S, Kailasam S, Bansal M, Bhattacharyya D. Energy hyperspace for stacking interaction inAU/AUdinucleotide step: Dispersion-corrected density functional theory study. Biopolymers 2013; 101:107-20. [DOI: 10.1002/bip.22289] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/24/2013] [Revised: 05/13/2013] [Accepted: 05/13/2013] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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- Sanchita Mukherjee
- Biophysics Division; Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics; Kolkata 700064 India
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- Molecular Biophysics Unit; Indian Institute of Science; Bangalore 560012 Karnataka India
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- Molecular Biophysics Unit; Indian Institute of Science; Bangalore 560012 Karnataka India
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Mitra P, Chakraborty B, Bhattacharyya D, Basu S. Excimer of 9-aminoacridine hydrochloride hydrate in confined medium: an integrated experimental and theoretical study. J Phys Chem A 2013; 117:1428-38. [PMID: 23346864 DOI: 10.1021/jp3103639] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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We aim to find out the extent of stability of the excimer of 9-aminoacridine hydrochloride hydrate (9AA), a prospective PDT drug, in different confined media with varying cavity size. When confined in cetyltrimethyl ammonium bromide micelles, although at low concentration of 9AA, only a single distinct peak (λ(max) at 460 nm) with a shoulder at 485 nm is observed in steady-state fluorescence spectrum, yet with increase in concentration the peak and the shoulder merge with simultaneous emergence of another peak at 535 nm, which is assigned to excimer. Similar behavior is also observed in Triton-X, crown ether, α-cyclodextrin, β-cyclodextrin, and homogeneous aqueous medium. The formation of excimer, which reflects the extent of confinement of 9AA, is maximum in β-cyclodextrin followed by others. Steady-state and time-resolved fluorescence studies along with TRES and TRANES analyses coupled with anisotropy data and transient absorption studies reveal the presence of monomer-dimer equilibrium of 9AA in the excited state. Molecular modeling indicates that the structure of excimer is stabilized by locking of the two monomeric species via four hydrogen bonds formed between the amino-H and imino-N of 9AA monomers, whereas the dimer in the ground state has only two such hydrogen bonds.
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- Piyali Mitra
- Chemical Sciences Division, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, 1/AF, Bidhannagar, Kolkata 700064, India
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Panigrahi S, Pal R, Bhattacharyya D. Structure and energy of non-canonical basepairs: comparison of various computational chemistry methods with crystallographic ensembles. J Biomol Struct Dyn 2012; 29:541-56. [PMID: 22066539 DOI: 10.1080/07391102.2011.10507404] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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Different types of non-canonical basepairs, in addition to the Watson-Crick ones, are observed quite frequently in RNA. Their importance in the three dimensional structure is not fully understood, but their various roles have been proposed by different groups. We have analyzed the energetics and geometry of 32 most frequently observed basepairs in the functional RNA crystal structures using different popular empirical, semi-empirical and ab initio quantum chemical methods and compared their optimized geometry with the crystal data. These basepairs are classified into three categories: polar, non-polar and sugar-mediated, depending on the types of atoms involved in hydrogen bonding. In case of polar basepairs, most of the methods give rise to optimized structures close to their initial geometry. The interaction energies also follow similar trends, with the polar ones having more attractive interaction energies. Some of the C-H...O/N hydrogen bond mediated non-polar basepairs are also found to be significantly stable in terms of their interaction energy values. Few polar basepairs, having amino or carboxyl groups not hydrogen bonded to anything, such as G:G H:W C, show large flexibility. Most of the non-polar basepairs, except A:G s:s T and A:G w:s C, are found to be stable; indicating C-H...O/N interaction also plays a prominent role in stabilizing the basepairs. The sugar mediated basepairs show variability in their structures, due to the involvement of flexible ribose sugar. These presumably indicate that the most of the polar basepairs along with few non-polar ones act as seed for RNA folding while few may act as some conformational switch in the RNA.
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- Swati Panigrahi
- Biophysics Division, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, 1/AF Bidhannagar, Kolkata 700064, India
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Yurenko YP, Zhurakivsky RO, Samijlenko SP, Hovorun DM. Intramolecular CH···O hydrogen bonds in the AI and BI DNA-like conformers of canonical nucleosides and their Watson-Crick pairs. Quantum chemical and AIM analysis. J Biomol Struct Dyn 2011; 29:51-65. [PMID: 21696225 DOI: 10.1080/07391102.2011.10507374] [Citation(s) in RCA: 84] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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The aim of this work is to cast some light on the H-bonds in double-stranded DNA in its AI and BI forms. For this purpose, we have performed the MP2 and DFT quantum chemical calculations of the canonical nucleoside conformers, relative to the AI and BI DNA forms, and their Watson-Crick pairs, which were regarded as the simplest models of the double-stranded DNA. Based on the atoms-in-molecules analysis (AIM), five types of the CH···O hydrogen bonds, involving bases and sugar, were detected numerically from 1 to 3 per a conformer: C2'H···O5', C1'H···O2, C6H···O5', C8H···O5', and C6H···O4'. The energy values of H-bonds occupy the range of 2.3-5.6 kcal/mol, surely exceeding the kT value (0.62 kcal/mol). The nucleoside CH···O hydrogen bonds appeared to "survive" turns of bases against the sugar, sometimes in rather large ranges of the angle values, pertinent to certain conformations, which points out to the source of the DNA lability, necessary for the conformational adaptation in processes of its functioning. The calculation of the interactions in the dA·T nucleoside pair gives evidence, that additionally to the N6H···O4 and N1···N3H canonical H-bonds, between the bases adenine and thymine the third one (C2H···O2) is formed, which, though being rather weak (about 1 kcal/mol), satisfies the AIM criteria of H-bonding and may be classified as a true H-bond. The total energy of all the CH···O nontraditional intramolecular H-bonds in DNA nucleoside pairs appeared to be commensurable with the energy of H-bonds between the bases in Watson-Crick pairs, which implies their possible important role in the DNA shaping.
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- Yevgen P Yurenko
- Laboratory of Computational Structural Biology, Department of Molecular and Quantum Biophysics, Institute of Molecular Biology and Genetics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 150 Zabolotnoho Street, Kyiv 03143, Ukraine
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Millen AL, Churchill CDM, Manderville RA, Wetmore SD. Effect of Watson−Crick and Hoogsteen Base Pairing on the Conformational Stability of C8-Phenoxyl-2′-deoxyguanosine Adducts. J Phys Chem B 2010; 114:12995-3004. [DOI: 10.1021/jp105817p] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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- Andrea L. Millen
- Department of Chemistry, University of Lethbridge, 4401 University Drive, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, T1K 3M4, and Department of Chemistry, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada, N1G 2W1
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Lethbridge, 4401 University Drive, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, T1K 3M4, and Department of Chemistry, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada, N1G 2W1
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Lethbridge, 4401 University Drive, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, T1K 3M4, and Department of Chemistry, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada, N1G 2W1
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Lethbridge, 4401 University Drive, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, T1K 3M4, and Department of Chemistry, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada, N1G 2W1
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Todd RC, Lippard SJ. Structure of duplex DNA containing the cisplatin 1,2-{Pt(NH3)2}2+-d(GpG) cross-link at 1.77 A resolution. J Inorg Biochem 2010; 104:902-8. [PMID: 20541266 DOI: 10.1016/j.jinorgbio.2010.04.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 90] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/29/2010] [Revised: 04/11/2010] [Accepted: 04/13/2010] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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We report the 1.77-A resolution X-ray crystal structure of a dodecamer DNA duplex with the sequence 5'-CCTCTGGTCTCC-3' that has been modified to contain a single engineered 1,2-cis-{Pt(NH(3))(2)}(2+)-d(GpG) cross-link, the major DNA adduct of cisplatin. These data represent a significant improvement in resolution over the previously published 2.6-A structure. The ammine ligands in this structure are clearly resolved, leading to improved visualization of the cross-link geometry with respect to both the platinum center and to the nucleobases, which adopt a higher energy conformation. Also better resolved are the deoxyribose sugar puckers, which allow us to re-examine the global structure of platinum-modified DNA. Another new feature of this model is the location of four octahedral [Mg(H(2)O)(6)](2+) ions associated with bases in the DNA major groove and the identification of 124 ordered water molecules that participate in hydrogen-bonding interactions with either the nucleic acid or the diammineplatinum(II) moiety.
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- Ryan C Todd
- Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139, United States
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Mukherjee S, Bansal M, Bhattacharyya D. Conformational specificity of non-canonical base pairs and higher order structures in nucleic acids: crystal structure database analysis. J Comput Aided Mol Des 2006; 20:629-45. [PMID: 17124630 DOI: 10.1007/s10822-006-9083-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2006] [Accepted: 09/26/2006] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Non-canonical base pairs contribute immensely to the structural and functional variability of RNA, which calls for a detailed characterization of their spatial conformation. Intra-base pair parameters, namely propeller, buckle, open-angle, stagger, shear and stretch describe structure of base pairs indicating planarity and proximity of association between the two bases. In order to study the conformational specificities of non-canonical base pairs occurring in RNA crystal structures, we have upgraded NUPARM software to calculate these intra-base pair parameters using a new base pairing edge specific axis system. Analysis of base pairs and base triples with the new edge specific axis system indicate the presence of specific structural signatures for different classes of non-canonical pairs and triples. Differentiating features could be identified for pairs in cis or trans orientation, as well as those involving sugar edges or C-H-mediated hydrogen bonds. It was seen that propeller for all types of base pairs in cis orientation are generally negative, while those for trans base pairs do not have any preference. Formation of a base triple is seen to reduce propeller of the associated base pair along with reduction of overall flexibility of the pairs. We noticed that base pairs involving sugar edge are generally more non-planar, with large propeller or buckle values, presumably to avoid steric clash between the bulky sugar moieties. These specific conformational signatures often provide an insight into their role in the structural and functional context of RNA.
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- Shayantani Mukherjee
- Biophysics Division, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, 1/AF Bidhannagar, Kolkata, 700064, India
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