An increasing number of human disorders are attributed to genomic expansions of short tandem repeats (STRs). Secondary DNA structures formed by STRs are believed to play an important role in expansion, while the presence of nucleotide interruptions within the pure repeat sequence is known to delay the onset and progression of disease. We have used two single-molecule fluorescence techniques to analyse the structure and dynamics of DNA three-way junctions (3WJs) containing CAG repeat hairpin slipouts, with and without a single CAA interrupt. For a 3WJ with a (CAG)10 slipout, the CAA interrupt is preferentially located in the hairpin loop, and the branch migration dynamics are 4-fold slower than for the 3WJ with a pure (CAG)10, and 3-fold slower than a 3WJ with a pure (CAG)40 repeat. The (CAG)11 3WJ with CAA interrupt adopts a conformation that places the interrupt in or near the hairpin loop, with similar dynamics to the pure (CAG)10 and (CAG)11 3WJs. We have shown that changing a single nucleotide (G to A) in a pure repeat can have a large impact on 3WJ structure and dynamics, which may be important for the protective role of interrupts in repeat expansion diseases.
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