Application of matrix rank analysis to the optical rotatory dispersion of TMV RNA

Biopolymers - Tập 5 Số 7 - Trang 589-613 - 1967
D. W. McMullen1, S. Richard Jaskunas1, Ignacio Tinoco1
1Department of Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, California 94704

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AbstractThe method of matrix rank analysis has been applied to a large body of experimental data to determine and identify the minimum number of independent spectral components that, were contained within it. The optical rotatory dispersion of TMV RNA was measured in the wavelength region 230–350 mμ, for a wide range of temperatures and ionic strengths. Over the whole range of conditions considered, the observed optical rotatory dispersion spectra were found to be a superposition of two basic spectra only. Evidence is put forward relating these spectra to the single‐strand and double‐strand helical forms of the molecule. A model is proposed to explain the observed spectral changes in terms of an equilibrium between these two conformations, which leads to a direct calculation of the percentage composition of the double strand at any of the conditions considered. This equilibrium, while simple in general description, appears multi‐state and complex in detail. This method of analysis is both powerful and of wide applicability, since it is independent of the source of the data.

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Biopolymers

Tập 5 Số 7

589-613

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