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NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH
卷 39, 期 9, 页码 3928-3938出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkq1312
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- UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
- BBSRC [BB/F011407/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BB/F011407/1] Funding Source: researchfish
Although DNA is frequently bent and supercoiled in the cell, much of the available information on DNA structure at the atomistic level is restricted to short linear sequences. We report atomistic molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of a series of DNA minicircles containing between 65 and 110 bp which we compare with a recent biochemical study of structural distortions in these tight DNA loops. We have observed a wealth of non-canonical DNA structures such as kinks, denaturation bubbles and wrinkled conformations that form in response to bending and torsional stress. The simulations show that bending alone is sufficient to induce the formation of kinks in circles containing only 65 bp, but we did not observe any defects in simulations of larger torsionally relaxed circles containing 110 bp over the same MD timescales. We also observed that under-winding in minicircles ranging in size from 65 to 110 bp leads to the formation of single stranded bubbles and wrinkles. These calculations are used to assess the ability of atomistic MD simulations to determine the structure of bent and supercoiled DNA.
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