Wang Ju, Qiao Jun-Qin, Liang Chao, Guo Xue-Wen, Zhang Meng-Ying, Zheng Wei-Juan, Lian Hong-Zhen
State Key Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Life Science, School of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering and Center of Materials Analysis, Nanjing University, 163 Xianlin Avenue, Nanjing 210023, China.
Nanjing Zhulu Pharmaceutical Technology Co., Ltd., 28 Kexin Road, Nanjing 211500, China.
Molecules. 2024 Dec 14;29(24):5915. doi: 10.3390/molecules29245915.
G-quadruplex (G4), an important secondary structure of nucleic acids, is polymorphic in structure. G4 monomers can associate with each other to form multimers, which show better application performance than monomers in some aspects. G4 dimers, the simplest and most widespread multimeric structures, are often used as a representative for studying multimers. RHAU, a G4 ligand, has been reported to recognize G4 dimers. However, there are few reports focusing on interactions between RHAU and different G4 dimers. In this work, interactions between RHAU peptide and six G4 dimers were investigated by size-exclusion chromatography (SEC). It was revealed that compared to the hybrid G4 monomer, the hybrid tandem unstacked G4 dimer could form special binding sites, leading to a weak interaction with RHAU. It was also found that the steric hindrance at terminal G-tetrads of a special Z-G4 structure greatly weakened their interactions with RHAU. Additionally, RHAU exhibited stronger interactions with intermolecular stacked/interlocked parallel dimers than with intramolecular tandem stacked parallel dimers. This work enriches the understanding of interactions between RHAU and G4 dimers, which is conducive to the elucidation of G4 polymorphism, and provides a strong reference for studying G4 multimer-peptide interactions.
G-四链体(G4)是核酸的一种重要二级结构,其结构具有多态性。G4单体可以相互结合形成多聚体,多聚体在某些方面表现出比单体更好的应用性能。G4二聚体是最简单、分布最广泛的多聚体结构,常被用作研究多聚体的代表。RHAU作为一种G4配体,已有报道称其能识别G4二聚体。然而,关于RHAU与不同G4二聚体之间相互作用的报道却很少。在这项工作中,通过尺寸排阻色谱法(SEC)研究了RHAU肽与六种G4二聚体之间的相互作用。结果表明,与杂交G4单体相比,杂交串联未堆叠G4二聚体可以形成特殊的结合位点,导致与RHAU的相互作用较弱。还发现一种特殊的Z-G4结构末端G-四联体处的空间位阻极大地削弱了它们与RHAU的相互作用。此外,RHAU与分子间堆叠/互锁平行二聚体的相互作用比与分子内串联堆叠平行二聚体的相互作用更强。这项工作丰富了对RHAU与G4二聚体之间相互作用的理解,有助于阐明G4多态性,并为研究G4多聚体-肽相互作用提供了有力参考。
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