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Magnesium ions reversibly bind to DNA double stranded helix in thin films

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Effects of magnesium (Mg2+) ions on the stability and structural properties of double-stranded DNA are vitally important for DNA folding and functional behavior. Complementing our previous study on highly hydrated thin films of DNA with sodium counterions, with no buffer (pH approximate to 6) and surrounded with Mg2+ cations, here we use Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy and band shape analysis to explore in detail the vibrational signatures of DNA-magnesium interaction in the case when DNA charges are neutralized solely by Mg2+ cations, hereafter called MgDNA. Ion atmosphere has been controlled by the magnesium to phosphate molar concentration ratio r which varied between 0.0067 and 10. For r = 0 we find that spectral features in the base region remain similar as in DNA, whereas changes in the backbone region indicate that the B conformation becomes fully stabilized. With increasing r a pronounced structural reshaping occurs in the phosphate backbone region indicating a blue shift of the asymmetric band, while the symmetric band does not show any displacement in frequency. The band shape analysis of overlapping peaks in the respective phosphate regions demonstrates that the number of constituent modes as well as their positions in frequency do not change, whereas their intensities and bandwidths display disparate changes. The results reflect a variety of local environments at the DNA backbone due to a heterogeneous ion atmosphere with randomly distributed magnesium ions and local patterns of hydrogen bonds which change with increasing r. Remarkably, after crowded r = 10 ion atmosphere is depleted, Mg induced spectral changes vanish and structural features of MgDNA (r approximate to 0) are fully restored. Overall results strongly suggest that in MgDNA on highly hydrated thin films the hydrogen-base pairing remains preserved and that Mg2+ ions, similar to sodium ions, retain their mobility and interact with double helix via water-mediated electrostatic forces. (C) 2021 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.

DNA thin filmsFTIR spectroscopyMg2+Ion depletionAsymmetric and symmetric PO2-stretching modesBand shape analysis of phosphate group vibrationsVIBRATION MODESNUCLEIC-ACIDSCONFORMATIONAL TRANSITIONSPOLYELECTROLYTE SOLUTIONSPHOSPHATE-BACKBONEMG2+ BINDINGMETAL-IONSCATIONSSPECTRAPOLY(DG-DC).POLY(DG-DC)

Serec, Kristina、Babic, Sanja Dolanski、Tomic, Silvia

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Univ Zagreb

Inst Phys

2022

10.1016/j.saa.2021.120663

Spectrochimica acta

Spectrochimica acta

ISSN：1386-1425
年,卷(期)：2022.268
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