Stacked and continuous helical self-assemblies of guanosine monophosphates detected by vibrational circular dichroism

Analytical and Bioanalytical Chemistry
Iryna GoncharovaMarie Urbanová

Abstract

The aim of this study was to characterize self-assembled structures of guanosine derivatives in aqueous solutions by vibrational circular dichroism (VCD) and electronic circular dichroism (ECD). Three guanosine derivatives were studied [5'-guanosine monophosphate (GMP), diphosphate (GDP), and triphosphate (GTP)] using a broad range of concentrations and various metal/guanosine ratios. VCD was used for the first time in this field and showed itself to be a powerful method for obtaining specific structural information in solution. It can also help to determine the impact that the cations have, when added to the solution, on the versatile structures of guanine derivatives in terms of their association and disassociation. Based on the markedly different intensities and signs of the VCD signals observed for different concentrations of guanosine derivatives, we propose various structures based on guanine quartets for high guanosine concentrations and high K(+)/guanosine ratios (i.e., columnar helical organization of the quartets, which are rearranged into a continuous helix). We performed a degenerate coupled oscillator (DCO) calculation to interpret the VCD spectra obtained and how they vary during the assembly of guanosine derivati...Continue Reading

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Sep 21, 2013·Spectrochimica Acta. Part A, Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy·Iryna Goncharova

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