INTERACTION OF METAL IONS WITH POLYNUCLEOTIDES AND RELATED COMPOUNDS .12. RELATIVE EFFECT OF VARIOUS METAL IONS ON DNA HELICITY
INTERACTION OF METAL IONS WITH POLYNUCLEOTIDES AND RELATED COMPOUNDS .12. RELATIVE EFFECT OF VARIOUS METAL IONS ON DNA HELICITY
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DOI:
10.1021/ja01028a024
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发表时间:
1968-01-01
影响因子:
15
通讯作者:
SHIN, YA
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作者:
EICHHORN, GL;SHIN, YA
The ability of Cu (II) and Zn (II) to bring about the unwinding and rewinding of the DNA double helix under appropriate conditions has been previously demonstrated. The present study reveals that other divalent metal ions have similar effects upon DNA and can be placed in a sequence that indicates the magnitude of their influence on DNA structure, as follows: Mg (II), Co (II), Ni (II), Mn (II), Zn (II), Cd (II), Cu (II). This sequence is deduced from the following phenomena.(1) The melting temperature (7%) of DNA increases with increasing metal concentration for the metalsat the left of the series, whereas 7% passes through a maximum for the metals to the right, the maximum occurring at lowest concentration at the far right.(2) Mg (II) at the far left cannot induce any detectable rewindingof the double helix; Co, Ni, and Mn produce partial rewinding, whereas the metals on the ex-treme right bring about complete renaturation of DNA.(3) These metals produce an increasing shift in the ab-sorption maximum ofDNA, fromleft to right. The placement of the metals in the same sequence by these three criteria is readily explained by their ability to bind both phosphateand heterocyclic “base” sites with the ratio of affinity for “base” to phosphate increasing from left to right. he ability of metal ions to react with a variety of electron-donor sites on polynucleotides has received considerable attention. There are two main sites of interaction, the phosphate moieties of the ribose phosphate backbone, and the electron-donor groups on the bases. 2, 3 Two types of interaction carry with them some rather interesting consequences. Reaction with phosphate means stabilization of orderedstructures, 4-8