Biology – Quantitative Biology – Other Quantitative Biology
Scientific paper
2011-09-27
Scientific Reports 2, 272-9 (2012)
Biology
Quantitative Biology
Other Quantitative Biology
Scientific paper
10.1038/srep00272
Electronic properties of DNA are believed to play a crucial role in many phenomena in living organisms, for example the location of DNA lesions by base excision repair (BER) glycosylases and the regulation of tumor-suppressor genes such as p53 by detection of oxidative damage. However, the reproducible measurement and modelling of charge migration through DNA molecules at the nanometer scale remains a challenging and controversial subject even after more than a decade of intense efforts. Here we show, by analysing 162 disease-related genes from a variety of medical databases with a total of almost 20,000 observed pathogenic mutations, a significant difference in the electronic properties of the population of observed mutations compared to the set of all possible mutations. Our results have implications for the role of the electronic properties of DNA in cellular processes, and hint at the possibility of prediction, early diagnosis and detection of mutation hotspots.
Cheng Yun-Yin
Hsu Ching-Ling
R{ö}mer Rudolf A.
Shih Chi-Tin
Wells Stephen A.
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