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ArticleNucleic acids research2018

HgII binds to C-T mismatches with high affinity.

Olivia P Schmidt, Andrea S Benz, Guillaume Mata, Nathan W Luedtke

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  2. Are i-Motif Structures in DNA Compatible with Cytosine-Ag(I)-Cytosine Base Pairs?Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2026
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  3. Organomercury Nucleic Acids: Past, Present and Future.Chembiochem : a European journal of chemical biology · 2021
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  4. Stable Hg(II)-mediated base pairs with a phenanthroline-derived nucleobase surrogate in antiparallel-stranded DNA.Journal of biological inorganic chemistry : JBIC : a publication of the Society of Biological Inorganic Chemistry · 2020
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Olivia P SchmidtUniversity of Zurich, Department of Chemistry, Zurich, Switzerland.
Andrea S BenzUniversity of Zurich, Department of Chemistry, Zurich, Switzerland.
Guillaume MataUniversity of Zurich, Department of Chemistry, Zurich, Switzerland.
Nathan W LuedtkeUniversity of Zurich, Department of Chemistry, Zurich, Switzerland.

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Abstract

Binding reactions of HgII and AgI to pyrimidine-pyrimidine mismatches in duplex DNA were characterized using fluorescent nucleobase analogs, thermal denaturation and 1H NMR. Unlike AgI, HgII exhibited stoichiometric, site-specific binding of C-T mismatches. The on- and off-rates of HgII binding were approximately 10-fold faster to C-T mismatches (kon ≈ 105 M-1 s-1, koff ≈ 10-3 s-1) as compared to T-T mismatches (kon ≈ 104 M-1 s-1, koff ≈ 10-4 s-1), resulting in very similar equilibrium binding affinities for both types of 'all natural' metallo base pairs (Kd ≈ 10-150 nM). These results are in contrast to thermal denaturation analyses, where duplexes containing T-T mismatches exhibited much larger increases in thermal stability upon addition of HgII (ΔTm = 6-19°C), as compared to those containing C-T mismatches (ΔTm = 1-4°C). In addition to revealing the high thermodynamic and kinetic stabilities of C-HgII-T base pairs, our results demonstrate that fluorescent nucleobase analogs enable highly sensitive detection and characterization of metal-mediated base pairs - even in situations where metal binding has little or no impact on the thermal stability of the duplex.

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Base Pair MismatchCytosineMercuryNuclear Magnetic Resonance, BiomolecularNucleic Acid DenaturationSilverThymidineCytosineMercurySilverThymidine

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PMCPMC6061796

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