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Stephen J Devereux1, Fergus E Poynton2,3, Frederico R Baptista1
1School of Chemistry, University College Dublin, Dublin, 4, Ireland.
Abstract:
Ultrafast time-resolved infrared (TRIR) is used to report on the binding site of the [Ru(phen)2 (dppz)]2+ "light-switch" complex with both bimolecular (Oxytricha nova telomere) and intramolecular (human telomere) guanine-quadruplex structures in both K+ and Na+ containing solutions. TRIR permits the simultaneous monitoring both of the "dark" and "bright" states of the complex and of the quadruplex nucleobase bases, the latter via a Stark effect induced by the excited state of the complex. These data are used to establish the contribution of guanine base stacking and loop interactions to the binding site of this biologically relevant DNA structure in solution. A particularly striking observation is the strong thymine signal observed for the Na+ form of the human telomere sequence, which is expected to be in the anti-parallel conformation.
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