Bulge-out structures in the single-stranded trimer AUA and in the duplex (CUGGUGCGG).(CCGCCCAG). A model-building and NMR study
- 1 January 1988
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Nucleic Acids Research
- Vol. 16 (11) , 5013-5030
- https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/16.11.5013
Abstract
Model-building studies were carried out on the trimer AUA. Bulge-out structures which allow incorporation into a continuous RNA helix were generated and energy-minimized. All geometrical features obtained by previous NMR studies on purine-pyrimidine-purine sequences are accounted for in these models. One of the models was used to fit into a double helical fragment. Only minor changes were necessary to construct a central bulge-out in an otherwise intact duplex. NMR and model-building studies were performed on the duplex (CUGGUGCGG).(CCGCCCAG) which contains an unpaired uridine residue. NOE data, chemical-shift profiles and imino-proton resonances provided evidence that the extra U is bulged out of the duplex. The relatively small dispersion in 31P chemical shifts (approximately equal to 0.7 ppm) indicate the absence of t/g or g/t combinations for the phosphodiester angles zeta/alpha. An energy-minimized model of the duplex, which fits the present collection of data, is presented.Keywords
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