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. 1990 Nov 25;18(22):6621-4.
doi: 10.1093/nar/18.22.6621.

Formation of intramolecular triplex in homopurine-homopyrimidine mirror repeats with point substitutions

B P Belotserkovskii  1 , A G Veselkov, S A Filippov, V N Dobrynin, S M Mirkin, M D Frank-Kamenetskii
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Formation of intramolecular triplex in homopurine-homopyrimidine mirror repeats with point substitutions

B P Belotserkovskii et al. Nucleic Acids Res. .
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Abstract

We have used two-dimensional gel electrophoresis to study the structural transition to the triplex H form of sequences 5'-AAGGGAGAAXGGGGTATAGGGGYAAGAGGGAA-3' where X and Y are any DNA bases. The transition was observed at acid pH under superhelical stress. For X = Y = A or X = Y = G the sequences corresponded to homopurine-homopyrimidine mirror repeats (H-palindrome) which are known to adopt the H form under acid pH and superhelical stress. We have shown that the H form is actually formed for all X and Y, though in cases other than X = Y = A and X = Y = G the transition requires larger negative superhelical stress. Different substitutions require different superhelicity levels for the transition to occur. Theoretical analysis of the data obtained made it possible to estimate the energy cost of triplex formation due to all possible mismatched base triads.

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