Classification of nucleic acids structures by means of the chemometric analysis of circular dichroism spectra
DNA can adopt structures in solution apart from the well-known Watson-Click double helix, ranging from disordered single strands to high-order structures such as triplexes or quadruplexes. Moreover, different topologies can be adopted depending on the polarity of the DNA strands. The elucidation of...
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| Formato: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión aceptada para publicación |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2009 |
| País: | España |
| Recursos: | Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) |
| Repositorio: | DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:digital.csic.es:10261/109763 |
| Acesso em linha: | http://hdl.handle.net/10261/109763 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palavra-chave: | DNA structure Principal Component Analysis Partial Least Squares Discriminant Analysis Clustering Circular dichroism spectroscopy |
| Resumo: | DNA can adopt structures in solution apart from the well-known Watson-Click double helix, ranging from disordered single strands to high-order structures such as triplexes or quadruplexes. Moreover, different topologies can be adopted depending on the polarity of the DNA strands. The elucidation of the structure and topology adopted by a DNA sequence is usually carried out by means of spectroscopic techniques, such as circular dichroism. In this work, the ability of several chemometric methods to efficiently classify DNA structures from circular dichroism data is tested. With this objective in mind, a data set including 50 experimental spectra corresponding to different DNA structures (random coil, duplex, hairpin, reversed and normal triplex, parallel and antiparallel G-quadruplex, and i-motif) has been analyzed by means of unsupervised Hierarchical Clustering Analysis, Principal Component Analysis and Partial Least Squares Discriminant Analysis. The results have shown than those methods allow efficiently the classification of DNA structures from circular dichroism spectra. Moreover, these classification methods also provided the most characteristic wavelengths used in the classification procedures. |
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