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A Study of the Complexation of Mercury(II) with Dicysteinyl Tetrapeptides by Electrospray Ionization Mass Spectrometry
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Preparation of DNA double helical structures containing both mercury and silver ions
Koji Yanagida1, Nagisa Hamochi, Kenichi Sasano
1Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Metropolitan University, 1-1 Minamiosawa, Hachioji, Tokyo 192-0397 Japan.
Nucleic Acids Symposium Series (2004)
|November 22, 2007
Abstract:
DNA duplexes consisting of metal-mediated pyrimidine base pairs, T-Hg(II)-T and C-Ag(I)-C, were prepared by mixing short oligodeoxyribonucleotides (ODNs) in the presence of the metal ions. The metal ions were arrayed linearly in the prepared double helical structures. The choice of sequence controls the order of the metal ions.
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