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. 1989 Jun 26;17(12):4493–4502. doi: 10.1093/nar/17.12.4493

Cationic metal-specific structures adopted by the poly(dG) region and the direct repeats in the chicken adult beta A globin gene promoter.

Y Kohwi 1
PMCID: PMC318009  PMID: 2748332

Abstract

Naturally occurring contiguous deoxyguanine residues and their surrounding sequences in the chicken adult beta A globin gene promoter were analyzed for their inherent potential to adopt non-B DNA structures in supercoiled plasmid DNA. In particular, cationic effects on structure were studied by treating the supercoiled plasmid DNA harboring the chicken adult beta A globin 5' flanking sequence with an unpaired DNA base-specific probe, chloroacetaldehyde in the presence of either Mg++, Cu++, Zn++, Ca++ or Co++ ions. The chloroacetaldehyde-reactive bases were mapped at a single base resolution by a chemical cleavage method that specifically cleaves DNA at the chloroacetaldehyde modified sites. These experiments revealed that while Mg++ and Ca++ ions induce a dG.dG.dC triple helix structure at the contiguous dG residues, Zn++, Cu++ and Co++ ions induce yet another structure at the direct repeats immediately 5' of the dG residues. When Mg++ and Zn++ ions are both present, Zn++ inhibits the dG.dG.dC triplex at the contiguous dG residues and induces a particular non-B DNA structure at the adjacent direct repeats. The specific induction of non-B DNA structures by metal ions at the two adjacent sequences within the promoter region may be of biological significance.

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