Bending and flexibility of kinetoplast DNA
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Bending and flexibility of kinetoplast DNA
Abstract
We have evaluated the extent of bending at an anomalous locus in DNA restriction fragments from the kinetoplast body of Leishmania tarentolae using transient electric dichroism to measure the rate of rotational diffusion of DNA fragments in solution. We compare the rate of rotational diffusion of two fragments identical in sequence except for circular permutation, which places the bend near the center in one case and near one end of the molecule in the other. Hydrodynamic theory was used to conclude that the observed 20% difference in rotational relaxation times is a consequence of an overall average bending angle of 84 +/- 6 degrees between the end segments of the fragment that contains the bending locus near its center. If it is assumed that bending results from structural dislocations at the junctions between oligo(dA).oligo(dT) tracts and adjacent segments of B DNA, a bend angle of 9 +/- 0.5 degrees at each junction is required to explain the observations. The extent of bending is little affected by ionic conditions and is weakly dependent on temperature. Comparison of one of the anomalous fragments with an electrophoretically normal control fragment leads to the conclusion that they differ measurably in apparent stiffness, consistent with a significantly increased persistence length or contour length in the kinetoplast fragments.
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