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   <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">Russian Journal of Biological Physics and Chemisrty</journal-id>
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    <journal-title xml:lang="en">Russian Journal of Biological Physics and Chemisrty</journal-title>
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     <trans-title>АКТУАЛЬНЫЕ ВОПРОСЫ БИОЛОГИЧЕСКОЙ ФИЗИКИ И ХИМИИ</trans-title>
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   <issn publication-format="print">2499-9962</issn>
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   <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">54567</article-id>
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    <subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="ru">
     <subject>Общая биофизика</subject>
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    <subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="en">
     <subject>General biophysics</subject>
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    <subj-group>
     <subject>Общая биофизика</subject>
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    <article-title xml:lang="en">Non canonical base pairs &amp; epigenetics</article-title>
    <trans-title-group xml:lang="ru">
     <trans-title>Неканонические пары GC и эпигенетика</trans-title>
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       <surname>Нечипуренко</surname>
       <given-names>Ю Д</given-names>
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      <name xml:lang="en">
       <surname>Nechipurenko</surname>
       <given-names>Y D</given-names>
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     <email>nech99@mail.ru</email>
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      <name xml:lang="ru">
       <surname>Семёнов</surname>
       <given-names>Д А</given-names>
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      <name xml:lang="en">
       <surname>Semyonov</surname>
       <given-names>D A</given-names>
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     <institution xml:lang="ru">Институт молекулярной биологии им. В.А. Энгельгардта РАН</institution>
     <country>ru</country>
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     <institution xml:lang="en">Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences</institution>
     <country>ru</country>
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    <aff>
     <institution xml:lang="ru">Институт биофизики СО РАН</institution>
     <country>ru</country>
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    <aff>
     <institution xml:lang="en">Institute of Biophysics, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Science</institution>
     <country>ru</country>
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   <pub-date publication-format="print" date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2020-12-25T20:22:29+03:00">
    <day>25</day>
    <month>12</month>
    <year>2020</year>
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    <day>25</day>
    <month>12</month>
    <year>2020</year>
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   <volume>5</volume>
   <issue>4</issue>
   <fpage>567</fpage>
   <lpage>570</lpage>
   <history>
    <date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2020-12-20T20:22:29+03:00">
     <day>20</day>
     <month>12</month>
     <year>2020</year>
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    <date date-type="accepted" iso-8601-date="2020-12-20T20:22:29+03:00">
     <day>20</day>
     <month>12</month>
     <year>2020</year>
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    <p>В течение последних десяти лет работы в области ЯМР ДНК позволили регистрировать не только канонические Уотсон-Криковские пары в ДНК, но и существующие несколько миллисекунд неканонические пары. Оказалось, что почти все возможные способы, которыми можно соединить нуклеотиды, реализуются при физиологических условиях в обычной ДНК. Мы проанализировали свойства неканонических пар оснований ГЦ и их связь с механохимическим расщеплением ДНК. Предложена гипотеза об участии переходных воббл пар оснований ГЦ (GC wobble) в механизмах механохимического расщепления ДНК и эпигенетических процессах с участием 5-метилцитозина. Гипотеза объясняет увеличение частоты разрывов сахарофосфатного остова ДНК после цитозинов, асимметричный характер этих разрывов и увеличение частоты разрывов CpG после метилирования цитозина. Эпигенетические свойства 5-гидроксиметил-цитозина, 5-формилцитозина и N4-метилцитозина также находят своё объяснение в рамках нашей гипотезы. Появляется представление о том, что регуляторные белки узнают не метильную группу на цитозине, а гораздо более масштабное искажение структуры ДНК, вызванное GC wobble парой. GC wobble пара позволяет объяснить повышенную частоту дезаминирования цитозина, то есть высокую частоту мутаций в регуляторных участках.</p>
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    <p>Over the past ten years, work in the field of DNA NMR has made it possible to record not only canonical Watson-Crick pairs in DNA, but also non-canonical pairs that exist several milliseconds. It turned out that almost all possible ways to connect nucleotides are realized under physiological conditions in ordinary DNA. Properties of non-canonical GC Base Pairs and their relation with mechanochemical cleavage of DNA are analyzed here. A hypothesis of the involvement of the Transient GC Wobble Base Pairs in the mechanisms of the mechanochemical cleavage of DNA and epigenetic mechanisms with participation of 5-methylcytosine is proposed. The hypothesis explains the increase in the frequency of the breaks of the sugar-phosphate backbone of DNA after cytosine, asymmetric character of these breaks, and an increase in the frequency of breaks in CpG after cytosine methylation . The epigenetic properties of 5-hydroxymethylcytosine, 5-formylcytosine, and N4-methylcytosine are also explained within our hypothesis. There is an idea that regulatory proteins do not recognize the methyl group on the cytosine, but a much larger distortion of the DNA structure caused by the GC Wobble pair. GC Wobble pair allows to explain the increased frequency of cytosine deamination, that is, the high frequency of mutations in regulatory sites.</p>
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    <kwd>эпигенетика</kwd>
    <kwd>GC воббл пары ДНК</kwd>
    <kwd>механохимическое расщепление ДНК</kwd>
    <kwd>таутомерия цитозина</kwd>
    <kwd>переходные неканонические пары оснований</kwd>
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    <kwd>mechanochemical cleavage of DNA</kwd>
    <kwd>transient Base Pairs in DNA</kwd>
    <kwd>Wobble Base Pair</kwd>
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    <kwd>5-methylcytosine</kwd>
    <kwd>molecular basis of epigenetics</kwd>
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    <funding-statement xml:lang="ru">Работа поддержана Программой фундаментальных исследований государственных академий наук на 2013 - 2020 годы (темы №01201363818 и № 01201363820) и также грантом Президиума РАН по Молекулярной и клеточной биологии.</funding-statement>
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