Solvation of nucleosides in aqueous mixtures of organic solvents: Relevance to DNA open basepairs

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Ababneh, AM [1 ]
Large, CC [1 ]
Georghiou, S [1 ]
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[1] Univ Tennessee, Dept Phys, Lab Mol Biophys, Knoxville, TN 37996 USA
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10.1016/S0006-3495(03)74548-2
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Q6 [生物物理学];
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071011 ;
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Toward the goal of understanding how open basepairs in DNA interact with their heterogeneous environment, we have studied the steady-state intrinsic fluorescence properties of the purine and pyrimidine deoxynucleosides in organic solvents in the presence of small amounts of water. The organic solvents used in the present study were: n-butanol, acetonitrile, methanol, n-propanol, isopropanol, and isobutanol. For n-butanol and acetonitrile, which have a high degree of amphiphilicity and weak hydrogen bonding ability, respectively, the fluorescence spectral properties of the purines are found to depend on the sequence of steps in which the aqueous mixtures were formed. By contrast, no such dependence was observed in the mixtures with any of the other solvents used in the present study. Moreover, no such dependence was observed for the pyrimidines. These findings suggest that the final solvation network around the purines is dependent on the nature of the environment to which they were initially exposed. This would tend to present an impediment to the closing of AT or GC basepairs in DNA that become open as a result of structural fluctuations, DNA bending, or protein-DNA interactions.
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