3.6.5.13 Kinetics of hairpin loop formation by oligomers

Author(s):  
D. H. Turner ◽  
N. Sugimoto ◽  
S. M. Freier
2007 ◽  
Vol 92 (7) ◽  
pp. 2281-2289 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dana Doucet ◽  
Adrian Roitberg ◽  
Stephen J. Hagen

2005 ◽  
Vol 353 (3) ◽  
pp. 730-743 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eydiejo Kurchan ◽  
Heinrich Roder ◽  
Bruce E. Bowler

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ajoy Maji ◽  
Ranjith Padinhateeri ◽  
Mithun K. Mitra

AbstractAn important question in the context of the 3D organization of chromosomes is the mechanism of formation of large loops between distant base pairs. Recent experiments suggest that the formation of loops might be mediated by Loop Extrusion Factor proteins like cohesin. Experiments on cohesin have shown that cohesins walk diffusively on the DNA, and that nucleosomes act as obstacles to the diffusion, lowering the permeability and hence reducing the effective diffusion constant. An estimation of the times required to form the loops of typical sizes seen in Hi-C experiments using these low effective diffusion constants leads to times that are unphysically large. The puzzle then is the following, how does a cohesin molecule diffusing on the DNA backbone achieve speeds necessary to form the large loops seen in experiments? We propose a simple answer to this puzzle, and show that while at low densities, nucleosomes act as barriers to cohesin diffusion, beyond a certain concentration, they can reduce loop formation times due to a subtle interplay between the nucleosome size and the mean linker length. This effect is further enhanced on considering stochastic binding kinetics of nucleosomes on the DNA backbone, and leads to predictions of lower loop formation times than might be expected from a naive obstacle picture of nucleosomes.


2008 ◽  
Vol 112 (19) ◽  
pp. 6094-6106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ngo Minh Toan ◽  
Greg Morrison ◽  
Changbong Hyeon ◽  
D. Thirumalai

2011 ◽  
Vol 2011 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Stephanie Harvie ◽  
Owen Wilson ◽  
John A. Parkinson

2D HSQC NMR spectroscopy has been used to monitor reaction and product formation between and nucleic acids possessing irregular topologies and containing site-specific phosphorothioate substitution in the phosphodiester backbone. Comparison of the reaction profiles of dimer nucleic acids with and without phosphorothioate substitution is made with their short nucleic acid counterparts containing the key dimer components. Whereas d(GpA) is relatively unreactive towards , NMR evidence suggests that the tandem sheared mismatch duplex d(GCG3pAGC)2 reacts to form the head-to-tail interstrand G3-N7-Pt-G3-N7 cross-link. The equivalent phosphorothioate R,S-d(GsA) reacts to form a monoiodo, monosulphur adduct, whereas the tandem sheared mismatch phosphorothioate duplex d(GCGsAG5C)2 (VIs) reacts to form the unusual intrastrand macrochelate , in which platinum is attached at both sulphur and G5-N7. Experimental evidence supports the formation of a stabilized mismatch duplex in which platinum is attached to two nitrogen centres in the sequence d(CGCGpTGCG) in contrast to R,S-d(CGCGsT5GCG) for which NMR evidence supports macrochelate-stabilized hairpin loop formation cross-linked at both phosphorothioate sulphur and T5-N3.


2013 ◽  
Vol 138 (17) ◽  
pp. 174908 ◽  
Author(s):  
Reza Afra ◽  
Brian A. Todd
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2006 ◽  
Vol 124 (10) ◽  
pp. 104905 ◽  
Author(s):  
Changbong Hyeon ◽  
D. Thirumalai

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