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Internal Sodium Ions and Water Molecules in Guanine Quadruplexes: Magnetic Relaxation Dispersion Studies of [d(G3T4G3)]2 and [d(G4T4G4)]2

Snoussi, Karim LU and Halle, Bertil LU (2008) In Biochemistry 47(46). p.12219-12229
Abstract
The structural stability of guanine quadruplexes depends critically on an unusual configuration of dehydrated Na+ or K+ ions, closely spaced along the central axis of the quadruplex. Crystallography and NMR spectroscopy indicate that these internal ions can be located between the G-quartet planes as well as in the thymine loops, but the precise ion coordination has been firmly established in only a few cases. Here, we examine the bimolecular diagonal-looped foldback quadruplexes [d(G3T4G3)]2 (Q3) and [d(G4T4G4)]2 (Q4) by 2H, 17O, and 23Na magnetic relaxation dispersion (MRD). The MRD data indicate that both quadruplexes contain Na+ ions between the T4 loops and the terminal G-quartets and that these ions have one water ligand. These ions... (More)
The structural stability of guanine quadruplexes depends critically on an unusual configuration of dehydrated Na+ or K+ ions, closely spaced along the central axis of the quadruplex. Crystallography and NMR spectroscopy indicate that these internal ions can be located between the G-quartet planes as well as in the thymine loops, but the precise ion coordination has been firmly established in only a few cases. Here, we examine the bimolecular diagonal-looped foldback quadruplexes [d(G3T4G3)]2 (Q3) and [d(G4T4G4)]2 (Q4) by 2H, 17O, and 23Na magnetic relaxation dispersion (MRD). The MRD data indicate that both quadruplexes contain Na+ ions between the T4 loops and the terminal G-quartets and that these ions have one water ligand. These ions exchange with external ions on a time scale of 10−60 μs at 27 °C, while their highly ordered water ligands have residence times in the range 10−8−10−6 s. The MRD data indicate that Q4 contains three Na+ ions in the stem sites, in agreement with previous solid-state 23Na NMR findings but contrary to the only crystal structure of this quadruplex. For Q3, the MRD data suggest a less symmetric coordination of the two stem ions. In both quadruplexes, the stem ions have residence times of 0.6−1.0 ms at 27 °C. The equilibrium constant for Na+ → K+ exchange is ∼4 for both loop and stem sites in Q3, in agreement with previous 1H NMR findings. (Less)
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  author       = {{Snoussi, Karim and Halle, Bertil}},
  issn         = {{0006-2960}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  number       = {{46}},
  pages        = {{12219--12229}},
  publisher    = {{The American Chemical Society (ACS)}},
  series       = {{Biochemistry}},
  title        = {{Internal Sodium Ions and Water Molecules in Guanine Quadruplexes: Magnetic Relaxation Dispersion Studies of [d(G3T4G3)]2 and [d(G4T4G4)]2}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/bi801657s}},
  doi          = {{10.1021/bi801657s}},
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