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BIOCHEMISTRY
Volume 46, Issue 7, Pages 2050-2058Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/bi062132w
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- NIGMS NIH HHS [R01 GM061009-04, R01 GM061009-02S1, R01 GM061009-02, R01 GM061009-01A1, R01 GM061009, R01 GM061009-03, GM061009] Funding Source: Medline
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A variation of affinity capillary electrophoresis, called the replacement ion (RI) method, has been developed to measure the binding of monovalent cations to random sequence, double-stranded (ds) DNA. In this method, the ionic strength is kept constant by gradually replacing a non-binding ion in the solution with a binding ion and measuring the mobility of binding and non-binding analytes as a function of binding ion concentration. The method was validated by measuring the binding of Li+ ions to adenosine nucleotides; the apparent dissociation constants obtained by the RI method are comparable to literature values obtained by other methods. The binding of Tris(+), NH4+, Li+, Na+, and K+ to dsDNA was then investigated. The apparent dissociation constants observed for counterion binding to a random-sequence 26-base pair (bp) oligomer ranged from 71 mM for Tris(+) to 173 mM for Na+ and K+. Hence, positively charged Tris buffer ions will compete with other monovalent cations in Tris-buffered solutions. The bound cations identified in this study may correspond to the strongly correlated, tightly bound ions recently postulated to exist as a class of ions near the surface of dsDNA (Tan, Z.-J., and Chen, S.-J. (2006) Biophys. J. 91, 518-536). Monovalent cation binding to random-sequence dsDNA would be expected to occur in addition to any site-specific binding of cations to A-tracts or other DNA sequence motifs. Single-stranded DNA oligomers do not bind the five tested cations under the conditions investigated here.
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