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Brázda V, Porubiaková O, Cantara A, Bohálová N, Coufal J, Bartas M, Fojta M, Mergny JL. G-quadruplexes in H1N1 influenza genomes. BMC Genomics 2021; 22:77. [PMID: 33485319 PMCID: PMC7823172 DOI: 10.1186/s12864-021-07377-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/06/2020] [Accepted: 01/08/2021] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Influenza viruses are dangerous pathogens. Seventy-Seven genomes of recently emerged genotype 4 reassortant Eurasian avian-like H1N1 virus (G4-EA-H1N1) are currently available. We investigated the presence and variation of potential G-quadruplex forming sequences (PQS), which can serve as targets for antiviral treatment. RESULTS PQS were identified in all 77 genomes. The total number of PQS in G4-EA-H1N1 genomes was 571. Interestingly, the number of PQS per genome in individual close relative viruses varied from 4 to 12. PQS were not randomly distributed in the 8 segments of the G4-EA-H1N1 genome, the highest frequency of PQS being found in the NP segment (1.39 per 1000 nt), which is considered a potential target for antiviral therapy. In contrast, no PQS was found in the NS segment. Analyses of variability pointed the importance of some PQS; even if genome variation of influenza virus is extreme, the PQS with the highest G4Hunter score is the most conserved in all tested genomes. G-quadruplex formation in vitro was experimentally confirmed using spectroscopic methods. CONCLUSIONS The results presented here hint several G-quadruplex-forming sequences in G4-EA-H1N1 genomes, that could provide good therapeutic targets.
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Affiliation(s)
- Václav Brázda
- Institute of Biophysics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Královopolská 135, 612 65, Brno, Czech Republic.
- Faculty of Chemistry, Brno University of Technology, Purkyňova 118, 612 00, Brno, Czech Republic.
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- Institute of Biophysics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Královopolská 135, 612 65, Brno, Czech Republic
- Faculty of Chemistry, Brno University of Technology, Purkyňova 118, 612 00, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Biophysics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Královopolská 135, 612 65, Brno, Czech Republic
- Department of Experimental Biology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Kamenice 5, 62500, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Biophysics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Královopolská 135, 612 65, Brno, Czech Republic
- Department of Experimental Biology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Kamenice 5, 62500, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Biophysics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Královopolská 135, 612 65, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Department of Biology and Ecology/Institute of Environmental Technologies, Faculty of Science, University of Ostrava, 710 00, Ostrava, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Biophysics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Královopolská 135, 612 65, Brno, Czech Republic
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- Institute of Biophysics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Královopolská 135, 612 65, Brno, Czech Republic.
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Filitcheva J, Edwards PJB, Norris GE, Filichev VV. α-2′-Deoxyguanosine can switch DNA G-quadruplex topologies from antiparallel to parallel. Org Biomol Chem 2019; 17:4031-4042. [DOI: 10.1039/c9ob00360f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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α-2′-Deoxyguanosine (α-dG) converts antiparallel, dimeric G-quadruplex DNA into a parallel, tetramolecular complex.
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- Jana Filitcheva
- School of Fundamental Sciences
- Massey University
- Palmerston North
- New Zealand
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- School of Fundamental Sciences
- Massey University
- Palmerston North
- New Zealand
- Maurice Wilkins Centre for Molecular Biodiscovery
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- School of Fundamental Sciences
- Massey University
- Palmerston North
- New Zealand
- Maurice Wilkins Centre for Molecular Biodiscovery
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Sagi J. In What Ways Do Synthetic Nucleotides and Natural Base Lesions Alter the Structural Stability of G-Quadruplex Nucleic Acids? J Nucleic Acids 2017; 2017:1641845. [PMID: 29181193 PMCID: PMC5664352 DOI: 10.1155/2017/1641845] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/22/2017] [Accepted: 08/15/2017] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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Synthetic analogs of natural nucleotides have long been utilized for structural studies of canonical and noncanonical nucleic acids, including the extensively investigated polymorphic G-quadruplexes (GQs). Dependence on the sequence and nucleotide modifications of the folding landscape of GQs has been reviewed by several recent studies. Here, an overview is compiled on the thermodynamic stability of the modified GQ folds and on how the stereochemical preferences of more than 70 synthetic and natural derivatives of nucleotides substituting for natural ones determine the stability as well as the conformation. Groups of nucleotide analogs only stabilize or only destabilize the GQ, while the majority of analogs alter the GQ stability in both ways. This depends on the preferred syn or anti N-glycosidic linkage of the modified building blocks, the position of substitution, and the folding architecture of the native GQ. Natural base lesions and epigenetic modifications of GQs explored so far also stabilize or destabilize the GQ assemblies. Learning the effect of synthetic nucleotide analogs on the stability of GQs can assist in engineering a required stable GQ topology, and exploring the in vitro action of the single and clustered natural base damage on GQ architectures may provide indications for the cellular events.
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- Janos Sagi
- Rimstone Laboratory, RLI, Carlsbad, CA 92010, USA
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Sinkovics JG. The cell survival pathways of the primordial RNA-DNA complex remain conserved in the extant genomes and may function as proto-oncogenes. Eur J Microbiol Immunol (Bp) 2015; 5:25-43. [PMID: 25883792 PMCID: PMC4397846 DOI: 10.1556/eujmi-d-14-00034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/02/2014] [Accepted: 12/22/2014] [Indexed: 01/09/2023] Open
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Malignantly transformed (cancer) cells of multicellular hosts, including human cells, operate activated biochemical pathways that recognizably derived from unicellular ancestors. The descendant heat shock proteins of thermophile archaea now chaperon oncoproteins. The ABC cassettes of toxin-producer zooxantella Symbiodinia algae pump out the cytoplasmic toxin molecules; malignantly transformed cells utilize the derivatives of these cassettes to get rid of chemotherapeuticals. High mobility group helix-loop-helix proteins, protein arginine methyltransferases, proliferating cell nuclear antigens, and Ki-67 nuclear proteins, that protect and repair DNA in unicellular life forms, support oncogenes in transformed cells. The cell survival pathways of Wnt-β-catenin, Hedgehog, PI3K, MAPK-ERK, STAT, Ets, JAK, Pak, Myb, achaete scute, circadian rhythms, Bruton kinase and others, which are physiological in uni- and early multicellular eukaryotic life forms, are constitutively encoded in complex oncogenic pathways in selected single cells of advanced multicellular eukaryotic hosts. Oncogenes and oncoproteins in advanced multicellular hosts recreate selected independently living and immortalized unicellular life forms, which are similar to extinct and extant protists. These unicellular life forms are recognized at the clinics as autologous "cancer cells".
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- J G Sinkovics
- St. Joseph's Hospital Cancer Institute Affiliated with the H. L. Moffitt Comprehensive Cancer Center, Morsani College of Medicine, Department of Molecular Medicine, The University of South Florida Tampa, FL USA
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Aviñó A, Mazzini S, Ferreira R, Gargallo R, Marquez VE, Eritja R. The effect on quadruplex stability of North-nucleoside derivatives in the loops of the thrombin-binding aptamer. Bioorg Med Chem 2012; 20:4186-93. [PMID: 22727781 PMCID: PMC3534854 DOI: 10.1016/j.bmc.2012.06.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/16/2012] [Revised: 05/31/2012] [Accepted: 06/02/2012] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Modified thrombin-binding aptamers (TBAs) carrying uridine (U), 2'-deoxy-2'-fluorouridine (FU) and North-methanocarbathymidine (NT) residues in the loop regions were synthesized and analyzed by UV thermal denaturation experiments and CD spectroscopy. The replacement of thymidines in the TGT loop by U and FU results in an increased stability of the antiparallel quadruplex structure described for the TBA while the presence of NT residues in the same positions destabilizes the antiparallel structure. The substitution of the thymidines in the TT loops for U, FU and NT induce a destabilization of the antiparallel quadruplex, indicating the crucial role of these positions. NMR studies on TBAs modified with uridines at the TGT loop also confirm the presence of the antiparallel quadruplex structure. Nevertheless, replacement of two Ts in the TT loops by uridine gives a more complex scenario in which the antiparallel quadruplex structure is present along with other partially unfolded species or aggregates.
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- Anna Aviñó
- Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona), Networking Center on Bioengineering, Biomaterials and Nanomedicine (CIBER-BBN) and Institute for Advanced Chemistry of Catalonia (IQAC), CSIC, Baldiri Reixac 10, E-08028 Barcelona. Spain
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Molecolari Agroalimentari, Università degli Studi di Milano, via Celoria 2, 20133 Milano, Italy
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- Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona), Networking Center on Bioengineering, Biomaterials and Nanomedicine (CIBER-BBN) and Institute for Advanced Chemistry of Catalonia (IQAC), CSIC, Baldiri Reixac 10, E-08028 Barcelona. Spain
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- Department of Analytical Chemistry, University of Barcelona, Diagonal 647, E-08028 Barcelona, Spain
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- Chemical Biology Laboratory, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute at Frederick, Frederick, Maryland 21702. USA
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- Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona), Networking Center on Bioengineering, Biomaterials and Nanomedicine (CIBER-BBN) and Institute for Advanced Chemistry of Catalonia (IQAC), CSIC, Baldiri Reixac 10, E-08028 Barcelona. Spain
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Circular dichroism and guanine quadruplexes. Methods 2012; 57:64-75. [PMID: 22450044 DOI: 10.1016/j.ymeth.2012.03.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 311] [Impact Index Per Article: 25.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/25/2012] [Revised: 03/08/2012] [Accepted: 03/09/2012] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Circular dichroism (CD) is remarkably sensitive to the conformational states of nucleic acids; therefore, CD spectroscopy has been used to study most features of DNA and RNA structures. Quadruplexes are among the significant noncanonical nucleic acids architectures that have received special attentions recently. This article presents examples on the contribution of CD spectroscopy to our knowledge of quadruplex structures and their polymorphism. The examples were selected to demonstrate the potential of this simple method in the quadruplex field. As CD spectroscopy detects only the global feature of a macromolecule, it should preferably be used in combination with other techniques. On the other hand, CD spectroscopy, often as a pioneering approach, can reveal the formation of particular structural arrangements, to search for the conditions stabilizing the structures, to follow the transitions between various structural states, to explore kinetics of their appearance, to determine thermodynamic parameters and also detect formation of higher order structures. This article aims to show that CD spectroscopy is an important complementary technique to NMR spectroscopy and X-ray diffraction in quadruplex studies.
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Zavasnik J, Podbevsek P, Plavec J. Observation of water molecules within the bimolecular d(G₃CT₄G₃C)₂G-quadruplex. Biochemistry 2011; 50:4155-61. [PMID: 21491853 DOI: 10.1021/bi200201n] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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G-Rich oligonucleotides with cytosine residues in their sequences can form G-quadruplexes where G-quartets are flanked by G·C Watson-Crick base pairs. In an attempt to probe the role of cations in stabilization of a structural element with two G·C base pairs stacked on a G-quartet, we utilized solution state nuclear magnetic resonance to study the folding of the d(G(3)CT(4)G(3)C) oligonucleotide into a G-quadruplex upon addition of (15)NH(4)(+) ions. Its bimolecular structure exhibits antiparallel strands with edge-type loops. Two G-quartets in the core of the structure are flanked by a couple of Watson-Crick G·C base pairs in a sheared arrangement. The topology is equivalent to the solution state structure of the same oligonucleotide in the presence of Na(+) and K(+) ions [Kettani, A., et al. (1998) J. Mol. Biol.282, 619, and Bouaziz, S., et al. (1998) J. Mol. Biol.282, 637). A single ammonium ion binding site was identified between adjacent G-quartets, but three sites were expected. The remaining potential cation binding sites between G-quartets and G·C base pairs are occupied by water molecules. This is the first observation of long-lived water molecules within a G-quadruplex structure. The flanking G·C base pairs adopt a coplanar arrangement and apparently do not require cations to neutralize unfavorable electrostatic interactions among proximal carbonyl groups. A relatively fast movement of ammonium ions from the inner binding site to bulk with the rate constants of 21 s(-1) was attributed to the lack of hydrogen bonds between adjacent G·C base pairs and the flexibility of the T(4) loops.
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- Jaka Zavasnik
- Slovenian NMR Center, National Institute of Chemistry, Hajdrihova 19, SI-1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
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Holm AIS, Kohler B, Hoffmann SV, Brøndsted Nielsen S. Synchrotron radiation circular dichroism of various G-quadruplex structures. Biopolymers 2010; 93:429-33. [PMID: 19937757 DOI: 10.1002/bip.21354] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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Here we report synchrotron radiation circular dichroism spectra of various G-quadruplexes from 179 to 350 nm, and a number of bands in the vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) are reported for the first time. For a tetramolecular parallel structure, the strongest band in the spectrum is a negative band in the VUV at 182 nm; for a bimolecular antiparallel structure with diagonal loops, a new strong positive band is found at 190 nm; for a bimolecular parallel structure with edgewise loops, a strong positive band at 189 nm is observed; and for a self-folded chair-type structure, the strongest band in the spectrum is a positive band at 187 nm. For the tetramolecular parallel structure, the CD signals at all wavelengths are dominated by contributions from quartets of G bases, and the signal strength is approximately proportional to the number of quartets. Our experiments on well-characterized G-quadruplex structures lead us to question past attributions of CD signals to helix handedness and G quartet polarity. Although differences can be observed in the VUV region for the various quadruplex types, there do not appear to be clear-cut spectral features that can be used to identify specific topological features. It is suggested that this is because a dominant positive band in the VUV seen near 190 nm in all quadruplex structures is due to intrastrand guanine-guanine base stacking. However, our spectra can serve as reference spectra for the G-quadruplex structures investigated and, not least, to benchmark theoretical calculations and empirical models.
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- Anne I S Holm
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Aarhus University, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark.
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Tomasko M, Vorlícková M, Sagi J. Substitution of adenine for guanine in the quadruplex-forming human telomere DNA sequence G(3)(T(2)AG(3))(3). Biochimie 2008; 91:171-9. [PMID: 18852018 DOI: 10.1016/j.biochi.2008.07.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/13/2008] [Accepted: 07/30/2008] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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We have studied the formation and structural properties of quadruplexes of the human telomeric DNA sequence G(3)(T(2)AG(3))(3) and related sequences in which each guanine base was replaced by an adenine base. None of these single base substitutions hindered the formation of antiparallel quadruplexes, as shown by circular dichroism, gel electrophoresis, and UV thermal stability measurements in NaCl solutions. Effect of substitution did differ, however, depending on the position of the substituted base. The A-for-G substitution in the middle quartet of the antiparallel basket scaffold led to the most distorted and least stable structures and these sequences preferred to form bimolecular quadruplexes. Unlike G(3)(T(2)AG(3))(3), no structural transitions were observed for the A-containing analogs of G(3)(T(2)AG(3))(3) when sodium ions were replaced by potassium ions. The basic quadruplex topology remained the same for all sequences studied in both salts. As in vivo misincorporation of A for a G in the telomeric sequence is possible and potassium is a physiological salt, these findings may have biological relevance.
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- Martin Tomasko
- Institute of Biophysics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Brno, Czech Republic
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Vondrusková J, Kypr J, Kejnovská I, Fialová M, Vorlícková M. Role of loops in the guanine quadruplex formation by DNA/RNA hybrid analogs of G4T4G4. Int J Biol Macromol 2008; 43:463-7. [PMID: 18812187 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2008.08.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/03/2008] [Revised: 08/22/2008] [Accepted: 08/26/2008] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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CD spectroscopy, gel electrophoresis and absorption-based thermal stability were used to analyze quadruplex formation of RNA and RNA/DNA hybrid analogs of the deoxyoligonucleotide G4T4G4, which forms a well-characterized basket-type quadruplex. All RNA-containing dodecamers, g4u4g4, G4u4G4 and g4T4g4 (RNA lower-case, DNA capital letters), formed parallel, namely tetramolecular quadruplexes in Na+-containing solutions. The u4 loop forced DNA tetrads into the same conformation as adopted by g4u4g4. In contrast, the T4 loop destabilized the RNA tetrads. Potassium ions markedly stabilized parallel quadruplexes of RNA-containing analogs as well as their bimolecular folding. In the presence of K+, g4T4g4 formed exclusively bimolecular quadruplexes of both parallel and antiparallel types as indicated by CD. Thus, the T4 loop permits RNA strands to adopt an antiparallel arrangement. These findings may be useful for engineering particular quadruplex foldings in different quadruplex-forming sequences.
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- Jitka Vondrusková
- Institute of Biophysics, v.v.i., Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Královopolská 135, CZ-612 65 Brno, Czech Republic
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