Tanaka Yoshiyuki, Yamaguchi Hiroshi, Oda Shuji, Kojima Chojiro, Ono Akira, Taira Kazunari, Kondo Yoshinori
Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Tohoku University, Aobayama, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8578, Japan.
Nucleic Acids Symp Ser (Oxf). 2005(49):51-2. doi: 10.1093/nass/49.1.51.
We have studied complexations of functional nucleic acids and metal ions, by means of NMR spectroscopy. In the case of hammerhead ribozymes, they have a metal ion-binding motif in their core sequences. Upon the metallation of N7 of a guanosine in an RNA duplex modelled after hammerhead ribozymes, 20 ppm higher field shift of N7 was observed in 1-dimensional (1D) 15N NMR spectra. It was found that metal ion binding to nucleobases were detectable with 15N NMR spectroscopy.
我们通过核磁共振光谱法研究了功能性核酸与金属离子的络合作用。就锤头状核酶而言,它们在核心序列中具有金属离子结合基序。在以锤头状核酶为模型的RNA双链体中,鸟苷的N7发生金属化后,在一维(1D)15N核磁共振光谱中观察到N7有20 ppm的高场位移。研究发现,利用15N核磁共振光谱可以检测到金属离子与核碱基的结合。