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NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH
卷 36, 期 11, 页码 3765-3780出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkn120
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- Associazione Italiana per la Ricerca sul Cancro Funding Source: Custom
The human KRAS proto-oncogene contains a critical nuclease hypersensitive element (NHE) upstream of the major transcription initiation site. In this article, we demonstrate by primer-extension experiments, PAGE, chemical footprinting, CD, UV and FRET experiments that the G-rich strand of NHE (32R) folds into intra-molecular G-quadruplex structures. Fluorescence data show that 32R in 100mM KCl melts with a biphasic profile, showing the formation of two distinct G-quadruplexes with T-m of similar to 55 degrees C (Q(1)) and similar to 72 degrees C (Q(2)). DMS-footprinting and CD suggest that Q(1) can be a parallel and Q(2) a mixed parallel/ antiparallel G-quadruplex. When dsNHE (32R hybridized to its complementary) is incubated with a nuclear extract from Panc-1 cells, three DNA protein complexes are observed by EMSA. The complex of slower mobility is competed by quadruplex 32R, but not by mutant oligonucleotides, which cannot form a quadruplex structure. Using paramagnetic beads coupled with 32R, we pulled down from the Panc-1 extract proteins with affinity for quadruplex 32R. One of these is the heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein A1, which was previously reported to unfold quadruplex DNA. Our study suggests a role of quadruplex DNA in KRAS transcription and provides the basis for the rationale design of molecular strategies to inhibit the expression of KRAS.
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