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The thermodynamics of formation of a novel divalent metal ion-DNA complex known as M-DNA have been investigated using an ethidium bromide (EB) fluorescence assay, and with isothermal titration calorimetry. The process of M-DNA formation was observed from the EB assay to be strongly temperature-dependent. The binding of Zn(2+) to calf thymus (42% GC content) and Escherichia coli (50% GC content) DNA at pH 8.5 exhibited an endothermic cooperative binding process at Zn(2+) concentrations of approximately 0.1 mM, indicating an entropy driven process. This binding process is consistent with a site-specific binding interaction, similar in nature to Z-DNA formation; however, the interaction occurs at much lower metal ion concentrations. The enthalpy of M-DNA formation for calf thymus DNA was determined to be 10.5+/-0.7 and 9+/-2 kJ/mbp at DNA concentrations of 100 and 50 microg ml(-1), respectively. An enthalpy of 13+/-3 kJ/mbp was obtained for M-DNA formation for 50 microg ml(-1) E. coli DNA. No evidence of M-DNA formation was observed in either DNA at pH 7.5 with Zn(2+) or at either pH 7.5 or 8.5 with Mg(2+).

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Author

Shawn D. Wettig; David O. Wood; Jeremy S. Lee

Publisher

Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; Elsevier BV (ISSN 0162-0134)

Published

2003

Language

EN

Field

Chemistry (Physical Sciences)