Abstract
UV and CD data of the partially self-complementary heptadecadeoxynucleotide d(CGCGCGTTTTTCGCGCG), obtained as a function of temperature, salt and strand concentration, show that: at low NaCl and strand concentration the oligomer exhibits, on increasing the temperature, a biphasic thermal profile which is indicative of two structural transitions, from dimeric duplex to hairpin and from hairpin to coil; the loop stabilizes enthalpically both B and Z hairpin structures with respect to the corresponding unconstrained hexamer d(CGCGCG) by a few Kcal/mol; the oligomer undergoes a B-Z transition which appears to be complete, at 0 degree C, when induced by NaClO4; by contrast the B-Z transition induced by NaCl does not reach completeness even at salt saturation. The independence of the denaturation temperature, at high salt conditions, on the oligomer concentration indicates that the Z structure is present also in the hairpin.
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