title: Thermal stability of the Z-conformation of the tetranucleoside triphosphate (m5dC-dG)2.
abstract: The tetranucleoside triphosphate d(m5C-G)2 has been studied in solution by circular dichroism and 31P nuclear magnetic resonance as a function of temperature, in presence of 3 M NaClO4. It is shown that in such high ionic strength d(m5C-G)2 may adopt a Z-like conformation for temperatures lower than 5 degrees C. At these temperatures, another conformation, in slow equilibrium with the Z-like one, is also detected. Increasing the temperature leads to a transition from the Z-like conformation to intermediate forms before melting. It is demonstrated that these intermediates are not the B form.
mesh_terms: D002942:Circular Dichroism; D004247:DNA; D004355:Drug Stability; D007700:Kinetics; D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy; D009690:Nucleic Acid Conformation; D009838:Oligodeoxyribonucleotides; D009841:Oligonucleotides; D013816:Thermodynamics
chemical_list: D009838:Oligodeoxyribonucleotides; D009841:Oligonucleotides; D004247:DNA