title: Thermodynamic comparison of PNA/DNA and DNA/DNA hybridization reactions at ambient temperature.
abstract: The thermodynamics of 13 hybridization reactions between 10 base DNA sequences of design 5'-ATGCXYATGC-3' with X, Y = A, C, G, T and their complementary PNA and DNA sequences were determined from isothermal titration calorimetry (ITC) measurements at ambient temperature. For the PNA/DNA hybridization reactions, the binding constants range from 1.8 x 10(6)M(-1)for PNA(TT)/DNA to 4.15 x 10(7)M(-1)for PNA(GA)/DNA and the binding enthalpies range from -194 kJ mol(-1)for PNA(CG)/DNA to -77 kJ mol(-1)for PNA(GT)/DNA. For the corresponding DNA/DNA binding reactions, the binding constants range from 2.9 x 10(5)M(-1)for DNA(GT)/DNA to 1.9 x 10(7)M(-1)for DNA(CC)/DNA and the binding enthalpies range from -223 kJ mol(-1)for DNA(CG)/DNA to -124 kJ mol(-1)for DNA(TT)/DNA. Most of the PNA sequences exhibited tighter binding affinities than their corresponding DNA sequences resulting from smaller entropy changes in the PNA/DNA hybridization reactions. van't Hoff enthalpies and extrapolated Delta G values determined from UV melting studies on the duplexes exhibited closer agreement with the ITC binding enthalpies and Delta G values for the DNA/DNA duplexes than for the PNA/DNA duplexes.
authors.affiliation: Center for Advanced Research in Biotechnology/National Institute of Standards and Technology, 9600 Gudelsky Drive, Rockville, MD 20850, USA. fred@casrb.nist.gov
authors.forename: F P
authors.initials: FP
authors.lastname: Schwarz
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Robinson
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Butler
mesh_terms: D001483:Base Sequence; D002151:Calorimetry / Q000379:methods; D004247:DNA / Q000737:chemistry*; D009691:Nucleic Acid Denaturation; D009693:Nucleic Acid Hybridization; D009838:Oligodeoxyribonucleotides / Q000737:chemistry*; D020135:Peptide Nucleic Acids / Q000737:chemistry*; D013816:Thermodynamics
chemical_list: D009838:Oligodeoxyribonucleotides; D020135:Peptide Nucleic Acids; D004247:DNA