Nucleic Acids Research, 1994, Vol. 22, No. 22 4742-4747
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Oligodeoxyribonucleotide length and sequence effects on intermolecular purine—purine—pyrimidine triple-helix formation
Department of Tumor Biology, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center 1515 Holcombe Boulevard, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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Received June 23, 1994. Revised September 3, 1994. Accepted September 3, 1994.
The binding of guanosine/thymidine-rich oligodeoxyribonucleotides containing various deletions, extensions, and point mutations to polypurine DNA targets was investigated by DNase I footprinting. Intermolecular purine–purine–pyrimidine triple-helical DNA formation was best achieved using oligonucleotides 12 nucleotides in length. Longer oligonucleotides were slightly weaker in binding affinity, whereas shorter oligonucleotides were considerably weaker. Oligonucleotide extensions had a slight effect on triplex formation, while single point mutations located near the oligonucleotide ends had a greater effect. In the cases of extensions and point mutations, changes to the 3' end of the oligonucleotide had a consistently greater effect on triplex formation than changes to the 5' end. Such differences in triplex-forming ability were not caused by an intrinsic property of these oligonucleotides, since the same point mutated oligonucleotides could bind with high affinity to duplex DNAs containing complementary sites. Taken together, our data suggest that there may be an asymmetry involved in the process of purine-motif triplex formation, with interactions between the 3' end of the oligonucleotide and complementary sequences on the target duplex DNA being dominant
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