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. 1978 Oct;5(10):3801–3809. doi: 10.1093/nar/5.10.3801

Study of DNA-spermine interactions by use of small-angle and wide-angle X-ray scattering and circular dichroism.

H Damaschun, G Damaschun, M Becker, E Buder, R Misselwitz, D Zirwer
PMCID: PMC342710  PMID: 724501

Abstract

Circular dichroism measurements with DNA-spermine complexes at 0.075 M NaCl and at 0.15 M NaCl reveal +psi (type I) and -psi (type II) CD spectra respectively. From small-angle X-ray scattering studies it could be shown that type I has a long-range order, short-range order supramolecular structure, while type II is of long-range disorder, short-range disorder structure. The secondary structure of the DNA in both types of condensates is B-like as concluded from wide-angle X-ray scattering diagrams of the condensates and from a comparison with the wide-angle X-ray curves of DNA and RNA in solution.

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