title: Role of molecular crowding in perturbing quadruplex-Watson Crick duplex equilibrium.
abstract: Herein, we address the sensitivity of the competitive equilibria between hoogsteen bonded quadruplex structure and hydrogen bonded Watson-Crick duplex structure. We used osmolytes as molecular crowding agents to mimick intracellular milieu and analysed their effect on Quadruplex-Duplex transition. We used telomeric quadruplex 5'Fluorescein-d[(G(3) TTA)(3) G(3)] as a model system and performed extensive Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer analysis for duplex formation in absence and presence of different concentrations of osmolytes (Glycerol and Ethylene Glycol). Overall the data shows that these molecular crowding agents stabilize quadruplex structure, delays duplex formation and thereby shifts the equilibrium towards quadruplex formation.
authors.affiliation: Proteomics and Structural Biology Unit, Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, CSIR, Mall Road, New Delhi 110 007, India.
authors.forename: Niti
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Kumar
authors.forename: Souvik
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Maiti
mesh_terms: D004247:DNA / Q000737:chemistry*; D019855:Ethylene Glycol / Q000737:chemistry; D031541:Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer; D054856:G-Quadruplexes; D005990:Glycerol / Q000737:chemistry; D016615:Telomere / Q000737:chemistry; D013816:Thermodynamics
chemical_list: D004247:DNA; D019855:Ethylene Glycol; D005990:Glycerol