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Re-evaluation of G-quadruplex propensity with G4Hunter
被引:504
作者:
Bedrat, Amina
[1
,2
]
Lacroix, Laurent
[3
]
Mergny, Jean-Louis
[1
,2
]
机构:
[1] Univ Bordeaux, ARNA Lab, F-33000 Bordeaux, France
[2] IECB, CNRS UMR 5320, Inserm U1212, F-33600 Pessac, France
[3] Univ Toulouse, CNRS, UMR5099, F-31000 Toulouse, France
关键词:
DNA G-QUADRUPLEX;
HUMAN GENOME;
FORMING SEQUENCES;
HUMAN GENES;
TRANSCRIPTION TERMINATION;
SACCHAROMYCES-CEREVISIAE;
DELETION BREAKPOINTS;
SMALL-MOLECULE;
MOTIF;
REPLICATION;
D O I:
10.1093/nar/gkw006
中图分类号:
Q5 [生物化学];
Q7 [分子生物学];
学科分类号:
071010 ;
081704 ;
摘要:
Critical evidence for the biological relevance of G-quadruplexes (G4) has recently been obtained in seminal studies performed in a variety of organisms. Four-stranded G-quadruplex DNA structures are promising drug targets as these non-canonical structures appear to be involved in a number of key biological processes. Given the growing interest for G4, accurate tools to predict G-quadruplex propensity of a given DNA or RNA sequence are needed. Several algorithms such as Quadparser predict quadruplex forming propensity. However, a number of studies have established that sequences that are not detected by these tools do form G4 structures (false negatives) and that other sequences predicted to form G4 structures do not (false positives). Here we report development and testing of a radically different algorithm, G4Hunter that takes into account G-richness and G-skewness of a given sequence and gives a quadruplex propensity score as output. To validate this model, we tested it on a large dataset of 392 published sequences and experimentally evaluated quadruplex forming potential of 209 sequences using a combination of biophysical methods to assess quadruplex formation in vitro. We experimentally validated the G4Hunter algorithm on a short complete genome, that of the human mitochondria (16.6 kb), because of its relatively high GC content and GC skewness as well as the biological relevance of these quadruplexes near instability hotspots. We then applied the algorithm to genomes of a number of species, including humans, allowing us to conclude that the number of sequences capable of forming stable quadruplexes (at least in vitro) in the human genome is significantly higher, by a factor of 2-10, than previously thought.
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页码:1746 / 1759
页数:14
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