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Nucleic acid specificity of a vertebrate telomere-binding protein: evidence for G-G base pair recognition at the core-binding site.

Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio 44106.

Abstract

A factor from avian cells formed complexes with telomeric sequences and other single-stranded probes that contained tracts of guanine residues. Nucleoprotein complexes with telomere probes required two or more of the telomeric repeats that were incapable of Watson-Crick base-pairing. Methylation interference and protection experiments identified guanine N7 residues that were critical for the formation of the nucleoprotein complex and for the formation of a higher-order structure that occurred in the absence of the protein. Substitutions of deoxyinosine (dI) for deoxyguanosine (dG) demonstrated that the exocyclic N2 amino groups in the internal telomeric repeat, but not the terminal repeat, were required for the formation of the chemically protected structure and for protein binding. On the basis of these data we propose that the factor specifically recognizes a hairpin DNA structure that is stabilized by intramolecular G-G base-pairing between the telomere repeats. The positions of the critical guanine N2 and N7 groups indicate a G-G base-pairing configuration, where guanines function as hydrogen bond donors at the internal telomeric repeat and hydrogen bond acceptors at the terminal telomeric repeat.

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