The m6A methylation perturbs the Hoogsteen pairing-guided incorporation of an oxidized nucleotide.

ABSTRACT: Natural nucleic acid bases can form Watson-Crick (WC) or Hoogsteen (HG) base pairs. Importantly, 8-oxo-2'-deoxyguanosine (8-oxo-dG) in DNA or 8-oxo-dG 5'-triphosphate (8-oxo-dGTP) favors a syn conformation because of the steric repulsion between O8 and O4' of the deoxyribose ring. 8-oxo-dGTP can be incorporated into DNA opposite the templating adenine (A) using HG pairing as the dominant mechanism. Both RNA and DNA can be methylated at the N6 position of A to form N6-methyladenine (m6A). It has been found that certain viral infections may trigger an increase in the production of both 8-oxo-dGTP and m6A. The current study aims to systematically explore the effects of m6A methylation on HG base pairs and the consequent nucleotide incorporation. Our thermodynamic melting study shows that the

SUBMITTER: Wang S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5628602 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature