title: Structure analyses of DNA oligomers by use of heteronuclear 2D NMR.
abstract: DNA oligomer d(CGGAAGACTCTCCTCCG):d(CGGAGGAGAGTCTTCCG) named UASG (17mer M.W. = 11 kDa) was studied by 1H NMR and heteronuclear two dimensional (2D) NMR. All the labile protons and half of the non-exchangeable protons were assigned by use of conventional 1H 2D experiments including NOESY using 1-1 echo excitation for water suppression. Signal degeneracy in the sugar proton region made it difficult to make assignments of the remaining half of the non-exchangeable protons of the oligomer in 1H 2D spectra. Here we report a new strategy using 1H/13C and 1H/31P heteronuclear single-quantum correlation spectroscopy combined with homonuclear three dimensional NOESY-TOCSY. By this strategy, most of the proton resonances of the oligomer have been assigned, and it turned out that the whole conformation of the oligomer is B-form like.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Protein Research, Osaka University, Japan.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Kojima
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ohkubo
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kyogoku
mesh_terms: D001483:Base Sequence; D004247:DNA / Q000737:chemistry*; D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy / Q000379:methods; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data
chemical_list: D004247:DNA