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BIOPHYSICS
Low-frequency dynamics of DNA in Brillouin light scattering spectra
S. G. Lushnikovab, A. V. Dmitrievab, A. I. Fedoseeva, G. A. Zakharovac, A. V. Zhuravlevc, A. V. Medvedevaac, B. F. Schegolevc, E. V. Savvateeva-Popovaac a Saint Petersburg State University
b Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg
c Pavlov Institute of Physiology Russian Academy of Sciences
Abstract:
Brillouin light scattering studies of deoxyribonucleic acid
(DNA) in the temperature interval $297$–$375$ K are
presented. DNA fragment ($119$ bp) from the 1st intron of $D$
melanogaster limk1 gene with
AT-rich insertion ($28$ bp, mutant $agn^{ts3}$) was used as an experimental sample. The temperature
dependence of the hypersound velocity was found to exhibit anomalies in the vicinity of $347$ and
$335$ К. Computer modeling of possible conformational states which might be attained by the
DNA fragment under study has shown the existence of local structures that evolve with varying
temperature. Combined analysis of experimental data and results of the modeling reveals a close
relation between the anomalous behavior of Brillouin light scattering spectra and conformational
DNA dynamics. The results are discussed in the framework of modern models of conformational
DNA transformations.
Received: 23.10.2013
Citation:
S. G. Lushnikov, A. V. Dmitriev, A. I. Fedoseev, G. A. Zakharov, A. V. Zhuravlev, A. V. Medvedeva, B. F. Schegolev, E. V. Savvateeva-Popova, “Low-frequency dynamics of DNA in Brillouin light scattering spectra”, Pis'ma v Zh. Èksper. Teoret. Fiz., 98:11 (2013), 830–836; JETP Letters, 98:11 (2013), 735–741
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