Melting temperature measurement and mesoscopic evaluation of single, double and triple DNA mismatches
Melting temperature measurement and mesoscopic evaluation of single, double and triple DNA mismatches
Unlike the canonical base pairs AT and GC, the molecular properties of mismatches such as hydrogen bonding and stacking interactions are strongly dependent on the identity of the neighbouring base pairs. As a result, due to the sheer number of possible combinations of mismatches and flanking base pairs, only a fraction of these have been studied in varying experiments or theoretical models. Here, we report on the melting temperature measurement and mesoscopic analysis of contiguous DNA mismatches in nearest-neighbours and next-nearest neighbour contexts. A total of 4032 different mismatch combinations, including single, double and triple mismatches were covered. These were compared with 64 sequences containing all combinations of canonical base pairs in the same location under the same conditions. For a substantial number of single mismatch configurations, 15%, the measured melting temperatures were higher than the least stable AT base pair. The mesoscopic calculation, using the Peyrard–Bishop model, was performed on the set of 4096 sequences, and resulted in estimates of on-site and nearest-neighbour interactions that can be correlated to hydrogen bonding and base stacking. Our results confirm many of the known properties of mismatches, including the peculiar sheared stacking of tandem GA mismatches. More intriguingly, it also reveals that a number of mismatches present strong hydrogen bonding when flanked on both sites by other mismatches. To highlight the applicability of our results, we discuss a number of practical situations such as enzyme binding affinities, thymine DNA glycosylase repair activity, and trinucleotide repeat expansions.
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Oliveira, Luciana M.
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Oliveira, Luciana M., Long, Adam S., Brown, Tom, Fox, Keith R. and Weber, Gerald
(2020)
Melting temperature measurement and mesoscopic evaluation of single, double and triple DNA mismatches.
Chemical Science, 11 (31), .
(doi:10.1039/D0SC01700K).
Abstract
Unlike the canonical base pairs AT and GC, the molecular properties of mismatches such as hydrogen bonding and stacking interactions are strongly dependent on the identity of the neighbouring base pairs. As a result, due to the sheer number of possible combinations of mismatches and flanking base pairs, only a fraction of these have been studied in varying experiments or theoretical models. Here, we report on the melting temperature measurement and mesoscopic analysis of contiguous DNA mismatches in nearest-neighbours and next-nearest neighbour contexts. A total of 4032 different mismatch combinations, including single, double and triple mismatches were covered. These were compared with 64 sequences containing all combinations of canonical base pairs in the same location under the same conditions. For a substantial number of single mismatch configurations, 15%, the measured melting temperatures were higher than the least stable AT base pair. The mesoscopic calculation, using the Peyrard–Bishop model, was performed on the set of 4096 sequences, and resulted in estimates of on-site and nearest-neighbour interactions that can be correlated to hydrogen bonding and base stacking. Our results confirm many of the known properties of mismatches, including the peculiar sheared stacking of tandem GA mismatches. More intriguingly, it also reveals that a number of mismatches present strong hydrogen bonding when flanked on both sites by other mismatches. To highlight the applicability of our results, we discuss a number of practical situations such as enzyme binding affinities, thymine DNA glycosylase repair activity, and trinucleotide repeat expansions.
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Accepted/In Press date: 23 July 2020
e-pub ahead of print date: 23 July 2020
Published date: 21 August 2020
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L. O. Oliveira and G. Weber acknowledge support by Fundação de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Minas Gerais (Fapemig, Brazil); Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientíco e Tecnológico (CNPq, Brazil) and Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Ńıvel Superior (Capes, Brazil). Adam S. Long acknowledges funding and support by The Forensic Science Service®, Solihull Parkway, Birmingham Business Park, Birmingham, B37 7YN, UK.
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/442926
ISSN: 2041-6520
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