Abstract
Chemical shift perturbations of the eight 1H resonances and of the three 31P resonances in the nuclear magnetic resonance spectra of ATP in 2H2O, pH 6.0, have been induced by specifically bound lanthanide cations Ln3+ (Ln = Pr, Nd, Eu, Yb). After separation of contact (through bond) perturbations the resultant through-space shifts, which are found to have axial symmetry, are used in an analysis of the conformation of the Ln3+ -ATP complex. A computer program was used to search for the conformations of the molecule which fit the nuclear magnetic resonance data. The "best" solutions obtained represent a small closely interrelated family of conformations. Effects of the cation Gd3+ on the longitudinal relaxation rates of five of the protons of ATP were also measured and used to confirm the conformational family. One of these conformations corresponds closely to one of the crystal structure forms, with an anti arrangement of the base-ribose unit and and a right-hand helical phosphate chain folded towards the adenine part of the molecule. The lanthanide ion binds predominantly to the beta and gamma phosphates and does not interact with the purine ring, these two centres being separated by at least one water molecule.
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