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NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH
Volume 43, Issue 1, Pages 629-644Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gku1282
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- Cancer Research UK [C129/A4489]
- China Fellowship
- University College London
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A quadruplex sequence from the promoter region of the c-KIT gene forms a stable quadruplex, as characterized by crystallographic and NMR methods. Two new crystal structures are reported here, together with molecular dynamics simulation studies on these quadruplex crystal structures and an NMR structure. The new crystal structures, each in a distinct space group and lattice packing arrangement, together with the existing structures, demonstrate that the c-KIT quadruplex fold does not change with differing environments, suggesting that quadruplex topological dynamism is not a general phenomenon. The single and dinucleotide loops in these structures show a high degree of conformational flexibility within the three crystal forms and the NMR ensem-ble, with no evidence of clustering to particular conformers. This is in accord with the findings of high loop flexibility from the molecular dynamics studies. It is suggested that intramolecular quadruplexes can be grouped into two broad classes (i) those with at least one single-nucleotide loop, often showing singular topologies even though loops are highly flexible, and (ii) with all loops comprising at least two nucleotides, leading to topological dynamism. The loops can have more stable and less dynamic base-stacked secondary structures.
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