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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY LETTERS
卷 9, 期 22, 页码 6605-6610出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.8b02851
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- United States NSF [CHE-1213895]
- European Research Council under the European Union's Seventh Framework Program (ERC) [616551]
- UCSB MRSEC [NSF DMR 1720256]
- European Research Council (ERC) [616551] Funding Source: European Research Council (ERC)
Hydrogen bonding between nucleobases produces diverse DNA structural motifs, including canonical duplexes, guanine (G) quadruplexes, and cytosine (C) i-motifs. Incorporating metal-mediated base pairs into nucleic acid structures can introduce new functionalities and enhanced stabilities. Here we demonstrate, using mass spectrometry (MS), ion mobility spectrometry (IMS), and fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET), that parallel-stranded structures consisting of up to 20 G-Ag-I-G contiguous base pairs are formed when natural DNA sequences are mixed with silver cations in aqueous solution. FRET indicates that duplexes formed by poly(cytosine) strands with 20 contiguous C-Ag-I-C base pairs are also parallel. Silver-mediated G-duplexes form preferentially over G-quadruplexes, and the ability of Ag+ to convert G-quadruplexes into silver-paired duplexes may provide a new route to manipulating these biologically relevant structures. IMS indicates that G-duplexes are linear and more rigid than B-DNA. DFT calculations were used to propose structures compatible with the IMS experiments. Such inexpensive, defect-free, and soluble DNA-based nanowires open new directions in the design of novel metal-mediated DNA nanotechnology.
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