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Nucleic Acids Research, 1978, Vol. 5, No. 6 2013-2031
© 1978

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A simple method for the computation of first neighbour frequencies of DNAs from CD spectra

Christian Marck$ and Wilhelm GuschlbauerSS

$Service de Biophysique, Département de Biologie, Centre d'Etudes Nucléaires de Saclay 91190 Gif -sur-Yvette, France SSService de Biochimie, Département de Biologie, Centre d'Etudes Nucléaires de Saclay 91190 Gif -sur-Yvette, France

Received April 11, 1978. A procedure for the computation of the first neighbour frequencies of DNA's is presented. This procedure is based on the first neighbour approximation of Gray and Tinoco. We show that the knowledge of all the ten elementary CD signals attached to the ten double stranded first neighbour configurations is not necessary. One can obtain the ten frequencies of an unknown DNA with the use of eight elementary CD signals corresponding to eight linearly independent polymer sequences. These signals can be extracted very simply from any eight or more CD spectra of double stranded DNA's of known frequencies. The ten frequencies of a DNA are obtained by least square fit of its CD spectrum with these elementary signals. One advantage of this procedure is that it does not necessitate linear programming, it can be used with CD data digitalized using a large number of wavelengths, thus permitting an accurate resolution of the CD spectra. Under favorable case, the ten frequencies of a DNA (not used as input data) can be determined with an average absolute error < 2%. We have also observed that certain satellite DNA's, those of Drosophila virilis and Callinectea sapidus have CD spectra compatible with those of DNA's of quasi random sequence ; these satellite DNA's should adopt also the B-form in solution.


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