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[en] The alternating cytosine-guanine oligodeoxyribonucleotides (dCdG)n, (dGdC)n, (dCdG)ndC (n = 3,4), (dGdC)7 and dG(dCdG)3 have been studied by UV and CD spectroscopy at different temperatures and NaCl concentrations. The analysis of the melting data, assuming an all-or-none model, reveals that in the B-conformation the 5'G/C3' stacking interactions are enthalpically favoured with respect to the 5'C/G3' one. The CD investigation of the B-Z equilibrium shows that the Z-conformation is enthalpically stabilized, while the B-conformation is entropically favoured, in the range of NaCl concentration considered (1 to 5 M). The kinetic data for the B-Z transformation, obtained with a salt-jump technique for the hexamer (dCdG)3, support a mechanism by which the Watson-Crick hydrogen bonds are broken before the bases flip over separately and eventually stack, reforming the H-bonds, in the new helix
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[en] DNA strand scission by bleomycin in the presence of Cu and Fe was further characterized. It was found that DNA degradation occurred readily upon admixture of Cu(I) or Cu(II) + dithiothreitol + bleomycin, but only where the order of addition precluded initial formation of Cu(II)-bleomycin or where sufficient time was permitted for reduction of formed Cu(II)-bleomycin to Cu(I)-bleomycin. DNA strand scission mediated by Cu + dithiothreitol + bleomycin was inhibited by the copper-selective agent bathocuproine when the experiment was carried out under conditions consistent with Cu chelation by bathocuproine on the time scale of the experiment. Remarkably, it was found that the extent of DNA degradation obtained with bleomycin in the presence of Fe and Cu was greater than that obtained with either metal ion alone. A comparison of the sequence selectivity of bleomycin in the presence of Cu and Fe using32P-end-labeled DNA duplexes as substrates revealed significant differences in sites of DNA cleavage and in the extent of cleavage at sites shared in common. For deglycobleomycin and decarbamoylbleomycin, whose metal ligation is believed to differ from that of bleomycin itself, it was found that the relative extents of DNA cleavage in the presence of Cu were not in the same order as those obtained in the presence of Fe. The results of these experiments are entirely consistent with the work of Sugiura who first demonstrate the generation of reactive oxygen species upon admixture of O2 and Cu(I)-bleomycin
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ANTIBIOTICS, ANTIMITOTIC DRUGS, ANTINEOPLASTIC DRUGS, BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES, BETA-MINUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES, CHEMICAL REACTIONS, CHEMISTRY, CHLORIDES, CHLORINE COMPOUNDS, COPPER COMPOUNDS, COPPER HALIDES, DAYS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES, DRUGS, HALIDES, HALOGEN COMPOUNDS, IRON COMPOUNDS, ISOTOPES, LIGHT NUCLEI, MICROORGANISMS, NUCLEI, NUCLEIC ACIDS, ODD-ODD NUCLEI, ORGANIC COMPOUNDS, OXYGEN COMPOUNDS, PARASITES, PHOSPHORUS ISOTOPES, RADIOISOTOPES, SULFATES, SULFUR COMPOUNDS, TRANSITION ELEMENT COMPOUNDS
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Mellema, J.R.; Wagenaars, G.N.; Funke, C.W.; Jacobs, P.L.; Boeckel, C.A.A. van; Boom, J.H. van; Hoogerhout, P.
9th European experimental NMR conference1988
9th European experimental NMR conference1988
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Graz Univ. (Austria); 199 p; 1988; p. 76; 9. European experimental NMR conference; Bad Aussee (Austria); 16-20 May 1988
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[en] Resonance assignments recently obtained on immobilized polypeptides and a membrane protein aggregate under Magic Angle Spinning are compared to random coil values in the liquid state. The resulting chemical shift differences (secondary chemical shifts) are evaluated in light of the backbone torsion angle ψ previously reported using X-ray crystallography. In all cases, a remarkable correlation is found suggesting that the concept of secondary chemical shifts, well established in the liquid state, can be of similar importance in the context of multiple-labelled polypeptides studied under MAS conditions
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Copyright (c) 2001 Kluwer Academic Publishers; Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
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Journal of Biomolecular NMR; ISSN 0925-2738;
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