Abstract
Magnetic shielding constants were calculated for the synthetic deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) double helix poly(dG-dC).poly(dG-dC) from the x, y, and z coordinates of Z-DNA of Rich and co-workers [Wang, A. H-J., Quigley, G. J., Kolpak, F. J., Crawford, J. L., van Boom, J. H., van der Marel, G., & Rich, A. (1979) Nature (London) 282, 680-686)] and B-DNA of Arnott & Hukins [Arnott, S., & Hukins, D. W. L. (1972) Biochem. Biophys. Res. Commun. 47, 1504-1509], taking into account the contribution to shielding from ring current effects and effects from the diamagnetic and paramagnetic components of the atomic magnetic anisotropy. Comparison of the calculated shielding values with the experimentally observed nuclear magnetic resonance shift data for poly(dG-dC).poly(dG-dC) in high salt solution shows striking agreement for Z-DNA and considerable deviation for B-DNA, indicating that this synthetic DNA double helix is high salt solution can assume the spatial configuration of the left-handed Z-DNA double helix known to occur in crystals.
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