title: Ultraviolet resonance Raman marker bands of the right to left helix structure transitions in DNA and polynucleotide model compounds.
abstract: The right to left helix structural transition in purine-pyrimidine alternating copolymers has been extensively studied by vibrational spectroscopies, amongst many other experimental approaches. Here, the use of resonance Raman spectroscopy in the ultraviolet region (223-, 257- and 281 nm excitation wavelengths) to monitor such structural changes is reviewed in the light of new results obtained on poly(dA-dC).poly(dG-dT) on one hand, and the previous results obtained on poly(dG-dC)2, poly(dA-dT)2 and natural DNA (Chicken erythrocytes) on the other. It is now possible to define B----Z transition marker bands involving the proper bases, which show a similar behaviour on structural transition whatever the composition of alternating purine-pyrimidine sequences: the 1580- and 1487 cm-1 lines of the purines, the 1486- and 1294 cm-1 lines of the pyrimidines are good markers in the vibrational spectra recorded at various UV excitation wavelengths.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie Biomoléculaires (CNRS URA 198) Institut Curie, Paris, France.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Miskovsky
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Laigle
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Chinsky
authors.forename: P Y
authors.initials: PY
authors.lastname: Turpin
mesh_terms: D004247:DNA / Q000737:chemistry*; D008968:Molecular Conformation; D015394:Molecular Structure; D009690:Nucleic Acid Conformation; D011089:Polydeoxyribonucleotides / Q000737:chemistry*; D013056:Spectrophotometry, Ultraviolet; D013059:Spectrum Analysis, Raman
chemical_list: D011089:Polydeoxyribonucleotides; C033927:poly(dA-dC).poly(dG-dT); D004247:DNA