Email this article An Insight into the Helicase Functioning Through the Hydrogen Isotope Effects
- Authors: Buchachenko A.L.1,2,3,4, Breslavskaya N.N.5
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Affiliations:
- Institute of Chemical Physics
- Institute of Problems of Chemical Physics
- Scientific Center in Chernogolovka
- Yaroslavl State University
- Kurnakov Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry Russian Academy of Sciences
- Issue: Vol 11, No 6 (2017)
- Pages: 974-977
- Section: Chemical Physics of Biological Processes
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/1990-7931/article/view/199747
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1134/S1990793117060185
- ID: 199747
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Abstract
The replacement of hydrogen atoms by deuterium in hydrogen bonds of base pairs AT and GC decreases the rate of unwinding DNA by more than 30% per each unzipped base pair. In active helicases this isotope effect refers to the ratio of the rate constants for unzipping closed base pairs in protiated and deuterated DNA. In passive helicases the effect is controlled by ratio of equilibrium constants for opening and closing base pairs in protiated and deuterated DNA. Hydrogen/deuterium isotope effects on the unwindening of double strand DNA seems to explain, at least partly, biological and pharmacological effects of heavy water on living organisms and may be used as a means to explore new facets of the helicase functioning.
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A. L. Buchachenko
Institute of Chemical Physics; Institute of Problems of Chemical Physics; Scientific Center in Chernogolovka; Yaroslavl State University
Author for correspondence.
Email: abuchach@chph.ras.ru
Russian Federation, Moscow; Chernogolovka, Moscow oblast; Chernogolovka, Moscow oblast; Yaroslavl
N. N. Breslavskaya
Kurnakov Institute of General and Inorganic Chemistry Russian Academy of Sciences
Email: abuchach@chph.ras.ru
Russian Federation, Moscow
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