title: Structural analyses of synthetic immobile Holliday junction.
abstract: In order to study the structural properties of Holliday junctions, we designed and synthesized oligodeoxyribonucleotides to construct the models of the Holliday junctions with no sequence symmetry at the sites of branching called immobile junctions. Electrophoretic and spectroscopic analyses of the immobile junctions indicated that the Holliday junctions constructed from four deoxy 24-mers and four 18-mers were stable in 0.1 M NaCl at approximately 5 x 10(-6) M strand concentration at room temperature. Addition of MgCl2 to the solution of HJs resulted significantly in an increase in melting temperature of HJs.
authors.affiliation: Department of Applied Biology, Faculty of Textile Science and Technology, Shinshu University, Nagano, Japan.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Shida
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Iwasaki
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Shinagawa
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kyogoku
mesh_terms: D001426:Bacterial Proteins / Q000378:metabolism; D001483:Base Sequence; D002942:Circular Dichroism; D004591:Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel; D004706:Endodeoxyribonucleases; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000378:metabolism; D029968:Escherichia coli Proteins; D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009690:Nucleic Acid Conformation; D009838:Oligodeoxyribonucleotides / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism; D011485:Protein Binding; D013056:Spectrophotometry, Ultraviolet
chemical_list: D001426:Bacterial Proteins; D029968:Escherichia coli Proteins; D009838:Oligodeoxyribonucleotides; C069806:ruvC protein, E coli; D004706:Endodeoxyribonucleases