Shape matters: size-exclusion HPLC for the study of nucleic acid structural polymorphism

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作者
Largy, Eric [1 ,2 ]
Mergny, Jean-Louis [1 ,2 ]
机构
[1] Univ Bordeaux, ARNA Lab, F-33000 Bordeaux, France
[2] INSERM, IECB, U869, F-33600 Pessac, France
关键词
G-QUADRUPLEX; HUMAN TELOMERE; DNA QUADRUPLEX; I-MOTIF; SEPARATION PRINCIPLE; CIRCULAR-DICHROISM; CRYSTAL-STRUCTURES; FORMATION PATHWAY; NMR STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE;
D O I
10.1093/nar/gku751
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
In recent years, an increasing number of reports have been focused on the structure and biological role of non-canonical nucleic acid secondary structures. Many of these studies involve the use of oligonucleotides that can often adopt a variety of structures depending on the experimental conditions, and hence change the outcome of an assay. The knowledge of the structure(s) formed by oligonucleotides is thus critical to correctly interpret the results, and gain insight into the biological role of these particular sequences. Herein we demonstrate that size-exclusion HPLC (SE-HPLC) is a simple yet surprisingly powerful tool to quickly and effortlessly assess the secondary structure(s) formed by oligonucleotides. For the first time, an extensive calibration and validation of the use of SEHPLC to confidently detect the presence of different species displaying various structure and/or molecularity, involving > 110 oligonucleotides forming a variety of secondary structures (antiparallel, parallel, A-tract bent and mismatched duplexes, triplexes, Gquadruplexes and i-motifs, RNA stem loops), is performed. Moreover, we introduce simple metrics that allow the use of SE-HPLC without the need for a tedious calibration work. We show that the remarkable versatility of the method allows to quickly establish the influence of a number of experimental parameters on nucleic acid structuration and to operate on awide range of oligonucleotide concentrations. Case studies are provided to clearly illustrate the all-terrain capabilities of SE-HPLC for oligonucleotide secondary structure analysis. Finally, this manuscript features a number of important observations contributing to a better understanding of nucleic acid structural polymorphism.
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