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A method is presented for determining the circular dichroism (CD) of systems whose CD spectra contain contributions from CD differential scattering. The technique is shown to detect light over 4 pi steradians, and thus, for the first time, a complete correction for scattering is possible. The method is applied to ethanol-condensed DNA and poly[d(A-C).d(G-T)]. From the results obtained, the former are proposed to have an A-type secondary structure. The condensed polynucleotide particles are shown to exhibit behavior similar to that of cholesteric liquid crystals. CD difference spectra, obtained from the scattering corrections and showing the contributions to different sections of the scattering envelope, are displayed. It is asserted that these scattering patterns contain information about the tertiary structure of the condensed DNA particles studied.
C Reich, and
M F Maestre, and
S Edmondson, and
D M Gray
January 1980,
Biochimie,
C Reich, and
M F Maestre, and
S Edmondson, and
D M Gray
June 1975,
FEBS letters,
C Reich, and
M F Maestre, and
S Edmondson, and
D M Gray
June 1977,
Biopolymers,
C Reich, and
M F Maestre, and
S Edmondson, and
D M Gray
June 1985,
Biochemistry,
C Reich, and
M F Maestre, and
S Edmondson, and
D M Gray
July 1991,
Journal of inorganic biochemistry,
C Reich, and
M F Maestre, and
S Edmondson, and
D M Gray
January 1978,
Biopolymers,
C Reich, and
M F Maestre, and
S Edmondson, and
D M Gray
April 1974,
Biochemistry,
C Reich, and
M F Maestre, and
S Edmondson, and
D M Gray
September 1987,
Nucleic acids research,
C Reich, and
M F Maestre, and
S Edmondson, and
D M Gray
May 1993,
Nucleic acids research,
C Reich, and
M F Maestre, and
S Edmondson, and
D M Gray
December 1986,
Nucleic acids research,
