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EUROPEAN BIOPHYSICS JOURNAL WITH BIOPHYSICS LETTERS
Volume 33, Issue 8, Pages 671-682Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s00249-004-0410-7
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cation-DNA interactions; polyelectrolytes; putrescine; spermidine; spermine
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Four different molecular dynamics (MD) simulations have been performed for infinitely long ordered DNA molecules with different counterions. namely the two natural polyamines spermidine(3+) (Spd(3+)) and putrescine(2+) (Put(2+)) the synthetic polyamine diaminopropane(2+) (DAP(2+)), and the simple monovalent cation Na+. All systems comprised a periodical hexagonal cell with three identical DNA decamers, 15 water molecules per nucleotide, and counterions balancing the DNA charge. The simulation setup mimics the DNA state in oriented DNA fibers, previously studied using NMR and other experimental methods. In this paper the interplay between polyamine binding and local DNA structure is analyzed by investigating how and if the minor groove width of DNA depends on the presence and dynamics of the counterions. The results of the MID simulations reveal principal differences in the polyamine-DNA interactions between the natural [spermine(4+), Spd(3+), Put(2+)] and the synthetic (DAP(2+)) polyamines.
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