Phosphorus-31 nuclear magnetic resonance of double- and triple-helical nucleic acids. Phosphorus-31 chemical shifts as a probe of phosphorus-oxygen ester bond torsional angles.
Phosphorus-31 nuclear magnetic resonance of double- and triple-helical nucleic acids. Phosphorus-31 chemical shifts as a probe of phosphorus-oxygen ester bond torsional angles.
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双螺旋和三螺旋核酸的磷 31 核磁共振。
DOI:
10.1021/bi00532a026
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发表时间:
1982
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影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
Vegeais,D
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作者:
Gorenstein,DG;Luxon,BA;Goldfield,EM;Lai,K;Vegeais,D
David G. Gorenstein,*'* Bruce A. Luxon, Evelyn M. Goldfield, Kofen Lai, and Donna Vegeais abstract: Thetemperature dependence to the 31P NMR spectra of poly [d (GC)]* poly [d (GC)], d (GC) 4, phenylalanine tRNA (yeast) and mixtures of poly (A)+ oligo (U) is presented. The 31P NMR spectra of mixtures of complementary RNA and of the poly d (GC) self-complementary DNA provide torsional information on the phosphate ester conformation in the double, triple, and “Z” helix. The increasing downfield shift with temperature for the single-strand nucleic acids provides a measure of the change in the phosphate ester have recently proposed that 31P chemical shifts in phosphate esters may serve as a direct probe of P-0 ester bond torsional angles. Both theoretical considerations [Gorenstein & Kar, 1975; see also Gorenstein (1975, 1978, 1981) and Pradd et al.(1979)] and direct experimental tests of this hypothesis [Gorenstein et al., 1976; Gorenstein & Luxon, 1979; see also Patel (1979a, b) and Gueron & Shulman (1975)] confirm that the 31P signal of a phosphate diester monoanion in a gauche, gauche (gg) 1 conformation (as found in the helix state) should resonate several parts per million upfield from a diester in a nongauche conformation (as found in the random coil state).These conclusions prove to be especiallysignificant since other spectroscopic probes fail to provide detailed conformational information on the phosphate ester bonds in the nucleic acids. Since it is now believed that of the six torsional angles that largely definethe conformational structure of nucleic acids, the two PO ester torsional angles provide themain conformational flexibility to the nucleic acid backbone (Kim