Issue 36, 2012
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Chemical Communications

Metal ion-binding properties of DNA duplexes containing thiopyrimidine base pairs†

Itaru Okamoto,*a   Takashi Ono,a   Rimi Sameshimaa  and  Akira Ono*a  

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a Department of Material and Life Chemistry, Faculty of Engineering, Kanagawa University, 3-27-1 Rokkakubashi, Yokohama 221-8686, Kanagawa-ku, Japan
E-mail: i-okamoto@kanagawa-u.ac.jp, akiraono@kanagawa-u.ac.jp
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Abstract

Thiopyrimidine pairs in DNA duplexes were unexpectedly largely stabilized by complexation with two equivalents of Ag(I) ions and their binding properties were evaluated. The metal ion-binding properties of the thiopyrimidine base pairs differed significantly from those of unpaired bases.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C2CC15436F
Article type
Communication
Submitted
01 Sep 2011
Accepted
14 Mar 2012
First published
26 Mar 2012

Chem. Commun., 2012,48, 4347-4349

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Metal ion-binding properties of DNA duplexes containing thiopyrimidine base pairs

I. Okamoto, T. Ono, R. Sameshima and A. Ono, Chem. Commun., 2012, 48, 4347 DOI: 10.1039/C2CC15436F

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