Published 1983 | Version v1
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Interactions between nucleic acids and antibodies to Z-DNA

  • 1. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Orleans, France

Description

In this paper we report some properties of the antibodies to Z-DNA. To determine more precisely the antigenic determinant, the interactions between the antibodies and several polynucleotides have been studied. We found that the antibodies bind very weakly to poly(dI-br5dC).(dI-br5dC). This polynucleotide can adopt the Z conformation in high salt concentration, as we have demonstrated by infrared spectroscopy. Moreover, from the study of the exchange rate of the protons involved in hydrogen bonds in this polynucleotide and from previous studies on poly(dG-dC).poly(dG-dC) (Ramstein and Leng 1980; Pilet and Leng 1982), we propose a quantitative description of the dynamic structure of the Z form. 34 references, 5 figures, 3 tables

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Publishing Information

Publisher
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
Imprint Place
Cold Spring Harbor, NY (USA)
Imprint Title
Cold Spring Harbor symposia on quantitative biology. Volume XLVII, Part 1. Structures of DNA
Journal Page Range
p. 163-170.

Conference

Title
47. Cold Spring Harbor symposium - quantitative biology.
Dates
2-9 Jun 1982.
Place
Cold Spring Harbor, NY (USA).