(525h) Understanding Sequence-Dependent DNA Dynamics through Self-Associative Machine Learning and Temperature-Jump Spectroscopy
AIChE Annual Meeting
2021
2021 Annual Meeting
Engineering Sciences and Fundamentals
Computational Studies of Early-Stage and Low-Dimensional Self-Assembly
Wednesday, November 10, 2021 - 5:15pm to 5:30pm
Despite rapid advances in DNA nanotechnology and a robust understanding of the associated thermodynamics, the sequence-dependent mechanisms of DNA hybridization are not fully understood. In this work, we investigate these dynamics by performing equilibrium coarse-grained simulations of oligonucleotide sequences with varied G:C placement. We employ recently developed State-Free Reversible VAMPnets to directly learn the slowest dynamical modes of each sequence and to optimize Markov State Models construction. Furthermore, we perform elevated temperature simulations to recapitulate temperature-jump IR spectroscopy and FTIR data collected on the oligonucleotides. For repetitive sequences, we find a spectrum of slow dynamics associated with out-of-register base pairing and kinetically relevant transitions between these states. In contrast, G:C pairs near the center of the duplex induce more rapid fraying dynamics. In both cases, hybridization/dissociation mechanisms deviate from an âall-or-nothingâ model. Our computational predictions are in excellent accord with experiment and elucidate new insights into sequence-dependent dynamics, metastable structures, and relative timescales. These results can inform a generalized model between DNA sequence and hybridization mechanism with application towards nanotechnologies such as DNA-PAINT and barcoding.
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