Thermodynamic propensities of biomolecules to adopt non-native conformations are crucial for understanding how they function, but prove difficult to measure experimentally. Combining optical melting experiments with chemical modifications and mutations, we developed delta-Melt for measuring the energetic penalties associated with nucleic acid conformational rearrangements and how they vary with sequence and physiological conditions. delta-Melt is fast, simple, cost effective, and can characterize conformational penalties inaccessible to conventional biophysical methods.

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Posted 18 Jan, 2021
Posted 18 Jan, 2021
Thermodynamic propensities of biomolecules to adopt non-native conformations are crucial for understanding how they function, but prove difficult to measure experimentally. Combining optical melting experiments with chemical modifications and mutations, we developed delta-Melt for measuring the energetic penalties associated with nucleic acid conformational rearrangements and how they vary with sequence and physiological conditions. delta-Melt is fast, simple, cost effective, and can characterize conformational penalties inaccessible to conventional biophysical methods.

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The full text of this article is available to read as a PDF.
There is NO Competing Interest.
This is a list of supplementary files associated with this preprint. Click to download.
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