DNA FLEXIBILITY STUDIED BY COVALENT CLOSURE OF SHORT FRAGMENTS INTO CIRCLES.

Proc Natl Acad Sci U S The, Vol. 78, No. 8. ( Aug 1981), pp. 4833-4837.

The ring closure luck, or j cause, has been totalled for DNA limitation fragments of tangible method temperament EcoRI cohesive ends as well as trimming in distance from 126 to 4361 bottom pairs( bp). The j cause is tangible as the comparative measure of the balance constants for cyclization as well as for bimolecular organisation around the cohesive ends. The end-joining reactions have been quick compared to covalent closure of the cohesive ends by T4 DNA ligase. The rate of ligase closure is shown to be proportionate to the balance fragment of DNA molecules with assimilated cohesive ends, both in cyclization as well as in bimolecular organisation reactions. The j cause changes by reduction than 10-fold in in between 242 as well as 4361 bp, since it decreases by some-more than 100-fold in in between 242 as well as 126 bp as the DNA reaches the distance operation of the diligence length( 150 bp). As regards ring closure, reduced DNA fragments have been surprisingly stretchable. These interpretation have been in great agreement with predictions by others for the ring closure luck of the wormlike sequence.

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