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NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH
卷 28, 期 9, 页码 1929-1934出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/nar/28.9.1929
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- NHGRI NIH HHS [HG02020] Funding Source: Medline
The thermodynamic contributions to duplex formation of all 32 possible single-nucleotide dangling ends on a Watson-Crick pair are reported. In most instances, dangling ends are stabilizing with free energy contributions ranging from +0.48 ((GT)(A)) to -0.96 kcal/mol ((AC)(G)). In comparison, Watson-Crick nearest-neighbor increments range from -0.58 (TA/AT) to -2.24 (GC/CG) kcal/mol. Hence, in some cases, a dangling end contributes as much to duplex stability as a Watson-Crick A-T base pair. The implications of these results for DNA probe design are discussed. Analysis of the sequence dependence of dangling-end stabilities show that the nature of the closing base pair largely determines the stabilization. For a given closing base pair, however, adenine dangling ends are always more or equally as stable as the other dangling nucleotides. Moreover, 5' dangling ends are move or equally as stabilizing as their 3' counterparts. Comparison of DNA with RNA dangling-end motifs shows that DNA motifs with 5' dangling ends contribute to stability equally or more than their RNA counterparts. Conversely, RNA 3' dangling ends contribute to stability equally or more than their DNA counterparts. This data set has been incorporated into a DNA secondary structure prediction algorithm (DNA MFOLD) (http://mfold2.wustl.edu/ similar to mfold/dna/ form1.cgi) as well as a DNA hybridization prediction algorithm (HVTHER(TM))(http:jsI1.chem.wayne.edu/ Hyther/hythermenu.html).
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