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Visualizing transient Watson-Crick-like mispairs in DNA and RNA duplexes.


ABSTRACT: Rare tautomeric and anionic nucleobases are believed to have fundamental biological roles, but their prevalence and functional importance has remained elusive because they exist transiently, in low abundance, and involve subtle movements of protons that are difficult to visualize. Using NMR relaxation dispersion, we show here that wobble dG•dT and rG•rU mispairs in DNA and RNA duplexes exist in dynamic equilibrium with short-lived, low-populated Watson-Crick-like mispairs that are stabilized by rare enolic or anionic bases. These mispairs can evade Watson-Crick fidelity checkpoints and form with probabilities (10(-3) to 10(-5)) that strongly imply a universal role in replication and translation errors. Our results indicate that rare tautomeric and anionic bases are widespread in nucleic acids, expanding their structural and functional complexity beyond that attainable with canonical bases.

SUBMITTER: Kimsey IJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4547696 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Visualizing transient Watson-Crick-like mispairs in DNA and RNA duplexes.

Kimsey Isaac J IJ   Petzold Katja K   Sathyamoorthy Bharathwaj B   Stein Zachary W ZW   Al-Hashimi Hashim M HM  

Nature 20150311 7543


Rare tautomeric and anionic nucleobases are believed to have fundamental biological roles, but their prevalence and functional importance has remained elusive because they exist transiently, in low abundance, and involve subtle movements of protons that are difficult to visualize. Using NMR relaxation dispersion, we show here that wobble dG•dT and rG•rU mispairs in DNA and RNA duplexes exist in dynamic equilibrium with short-lived, low-populated Watson-Crick-like mispairs that are stabilized by  ...[more]

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