Study of complexes of Hoechst 33258 with poly(rA)-poly(rU) depending on various ionic strengths in the water-saline solution.

Comparative study of the complexes of groove-binding ligand Hoechst 33258 (H33258) with synthetic homopolynucleotides poly(rA)-poly(rU) and poly(dA)-poly(dT) has been carried out at various concentration ratios of r = ligand/nucleic acids (NA) and different ionic strengths of the water-saline solution 0.02, 0.04 and 0.1 M, using the method of UV-melting. It was revealed that the melting curves of the complexes of poly(dA)-poly(dT) with H33258 at the low concentrations of ligand are biphasic, which actually does not depend on the solution ionic strength. In the case of the complexes of poly(rA)-poly(rU)-H33258, the melting curves become quasi-biphasic only at the ionic strength 0.02 M and relatively high concentrations of the ligand. Differential melting curves (DMC) of the mentioned polynucleotides and their complexes with H33258 were obtained as well. DMC of poly(rA)-poly(rU) were found to be significantly wide at the ionic strengths of the solution 0.02 and 0.04 M and to show an intrinsic heterogeneity of double-stranded structure of this polynucleotide.Communicated by Ramaswamy H. Sarma.

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Poghos O Vardevanyan, Marine A Parsadanyan, Ara P Antonyan, Mariam A Shahinyan. Study of complexes of Hoechst 33258 with poly(rA)-poly(rU) depending on various ionic strengths in the water-saline solution. Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics. 2022 Feb;40(3):1182-1188

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