NMR evaluation of ammonium ion movement within a unimolecular G-quadruplex in solution. Podbevsek, P., Hud, N. V, & Plavec, J. Nucleic acids research, 35(8):2554–63, January, 2007.
NMR evaluation of ammonium ion movement within a unimolecular G-quadruplex in solution. [link]Paper  doi  abstract   bibtex   
d[G4(T4G4)3] has been folded into a unimolecular G-quadruplex in the presence of 15NH4+ ions. NMR spectroscopy confirmed that its topology is the same as the solution state structure determined earlier by Wang and Patel (J. Mol. Biol., 1995; 251: 76-94) in the presence of Na+ ions. The d[G4(T4G4)3] G-quadruplex exhibits four G-quartets with three 15NH4+-ion-binding sites (O1, I and O2). Quantitative analysis utilizing 15NH4+ ions as a NMR probe clearly demonstrates that there is no unidirectional 15NH4+ ion movement through the central cavity of the G-quadruplex. 15NH4+ ions move back and forth between the binding sites within the G-quadruplex and exchange with ions in bulk solution. 15NH4+ ion movement is controlled by the thermodynamic preferences of individual binding sites, steric restraints of the G-quartets for 15NH4+ ion passage and diagonal versus edge-type arrangement of the T4 loops. The movement of 15NH4+ ions from the interior of the G-quadruplex to bulk solution is faster than exchange within the G-quadruplex. The structural details of the G-quadruplex define stiffness of individual G-quartets that intimately affects 15NH4+ ion movement. The stiffness of G-quartets and steric hindrance imposed by thymine residues in the loops contribute to the 5-fold difference in the exchange rate constants through the outer G-quartets.
@article{Podbevsek2007,
	title = {{NMR} evaluation of ammonium ion movement within a unimolecular {G}-quadruplex in solution.},
	volume = {35},
	issn = {1362-4962},
	url = {http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1895886&tool=pmcentrez&rendertype=abstract},
	doi = {10.1093/nar/gkm138},
	abstract = {d[G4(T4G4)3] has been folded into a unimolecular G-quadruplex in the presence of 15NH4+ ions. NMR spectroscopy confirmed that its topology is the same as the solution state structure determined earlier by Wang and Patel (J. Mol. Biol., 1995; 251: 76-94) in the presence of Na+ ions. The d[G4(T4G4)3] G-quadruplex exhibits four G-quartets with three 15NH4+-ion-binding sites (O1, I and O2). Quantitative analysis utilizing 15NH4+ ions as a NMR probe clearly demonstrates that there is no unidirectional 15NH4+ ion movement through the central cavity of the G-quadruplex. 15NH4+ ions move back and forth between the binding sites within the G-quadruplex and exchange with ions in bulk solution. 15NH4+ ion movement is controlled by the thermodynamic preferences of individual binding sites, steric restraints of the G-quartets for 15NH4+ ion passage and diagonal versus edge-type arrangement of the T4 loops. The movement of 15NH4+ ions from the interior of the G-quadruplex to bulk solution is faster than exchange within the G-quadruplex. The structural details of the G-quadruplex define stiffness of individual G-quartets that intimately affects 15NH4+ ion movement. The stiffness of G-quartets and steric hindrance imposed by thymine residues in the loops contribute to the 5-fold difference in the exchange rate constants through the outer G-quartets.},
	number = {8},
	journal = {Nucleic acids research},
	author = {Podbevsek, Peter and Hud, Nicholas V and Plavec, Janez},
	month = jan,
	year = {2007},
	pmid = {17412708},
	keywords = {\#nosource, Binding Sites, Biomolecular, Cations, Cations: chemistry, DNA, DNA: chemistry, G-Quadruplexes, Guanine, Guanine: chemistry, Models, Molecular, Motion, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Nucleic Acid Conformation, Quaternary Ammonium Compounds, Quaternary Ammonium Compounds: chemistry, Solutions, Temperature},
	pages = {2554--63},
}

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