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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B
Volume 115, Issue 19, Pages 6296-6303Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jp200832w
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- ASI-Agenzia Spaziale Italiana [I/014/06/0]
- ASI-INAF [I/015/07/0]
- Ateneo della Scienza e della Tecnologia (Sapienza University of Rome)
- MIUR
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The products of ligation reaction of a 24 nucleotides long PolyA RNA adsorbed on mica were observed by atomic force microscopy. The occurrence of oligonudeotides at different degrees of polymerization has been quantitatively studied before and after ligation reaction. The microscopy images at the nanoscale show that nonenzymatic ligation of pristine RNA monomers results in the formation of supramolecular aggregates, with prevalence of dimers and tetramers. Analytical conditions were defined allowing the identification, the quantitative evaluation, and their distribution after ligation reaction, also providing an estimate of the degree of hydration of the objects. Such investigation is of particular biological relevance and provides the simplest yet model system for direct investigation of RNA reactions by advanced microscopy.
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