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Formation of ternary complexes involving zinc or copper ions, polynucleotides, and polypeptides containing glutamic acid and tyrosine residues

✍ Scribed by Augustin Bere; Claude Helene


Publisher
Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
Year
1979
Tongue
English
Weight
682 KB
Volume
18
Category
Article
ISSN
0006-3525

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Abstract

Metal ions such as Zn^2+^ and Cu^2+^ can mediate interactions between copolypeptides (Glu~x~, Tyr~y~)~n~ and polynucleotides. CD data show that these ternary complexes are characterized by an unstacking of nucleic acid bases, while the polypeptide adopts an α‐helical conformation as observed in the two binary complexes polynucleotide–cation and polypeptide–cation. Fluorescence studies demonstrate that tyrosyl side chains interact with nucleic acid bases in the ternary complexes, leading to a quenching of tyrosine fluorescence.


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