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Nucleic Acids Research, 1980, Vol. 8, No. 23 5795-5812
© 1980

CHEMISTRY

A 300 MHz and 600 MHz proton NMR study of a 12 base pair restriction fragment: investigation of structure by relaxation measurements

Thomas A. Early, David R. Kearns, Wolfgang Hillen and Robert D. Wells

Department of Chemistry, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093 Department of Biochemistry, College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, University of Wisconsin Madison, WI 53706, USA

Received October 7, 1980. The 1H NMR spectrum of a 12 base pair DNA restriction fragment has been measured at 300 and 600 MHz and resonances from over 70 protons are individually resolved. Relaxation rate measurements have been carried out at 300 MHz and compared with the theoretical predictions obtained using an isotropic rigid rotor model with coordinates derived from a Dreiding model of DNA. The model gives results that are in excellent agreement with experiment for most protons when a 7 nsec rotational correlation time is used, although agreement is improved for certain base protons by using a shorter correlation time for the sugar group, or by increasing the sugar-base interproton distances. A comparison of non-selective and selective spin-lattice relaxation rates for carbon bound protons indicates that there is extensive spin diffusion even in this short DNA fragment. Examination of the spin-spin relaxation rates for the same type of proton on different base pairs reveals little sequence effect on conformation.


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