期刊
STRUCTURE
卷 11, 期 12, 页码 1485-1498出版社
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.str.2003.11.008
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- NIGMS NIH HHS [R01 GM054048-08, GM 54048, R01 GM054048] Funding Source: Medline
To guide the design of alternative genetic systems, we measured melting temperatures of DNA duplexes containing matched and mismatched nucleobase pairs from natural and unnatural structures. The pairs were analyzed in terms of structural features, including nucleobase size, number of hydrogen bonds formed, the presence of uncompensated hydrogen bonding functional groups, the nature of the bond joining the nucleobase to the sugar, and nucleobase charge. The results suggest that stability of nucleobase pairs correlates with the number of H-bonds, size complementarity, the presence of uncompensated functional groups, and the presence of charge on a nucleobase. Each of these properties appear to be more significant than the nature of the glycosidic bond and sequence context. The results provide guidelines for constructing stable Watson-Crick like nucleobase pairs with unnatural nucleobases. The experiments also demonstrate that expanded genetic systems can be constructed using size complementary nucleobase pairs that contain three hydrogen bonds.
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