Abstract
Longitudinal relaxation rates of 23Na and 87Rb in aqueous solutions of DNA were measured and interpreted in terms of contributions of “bound” and free species. The frequency dependence of the 23Na relaxation rate sets an upper limit of 5.5 nsec for the correlation time characteristic of the alkali ion-DNA interaction. The plausible description of the alkali ion-DNA interaction emerging from the results is one in which the “bound” ions comprise a highly mobile ionic cloud around the lattice of phosphate groups with a population characterized by an apparent dissociation constant of 10.9 mM. Any specific binding to phosphate groups involving severe restrictions of motional freedom must be much (at least two orders of magnitude) weaker and of a very short duration (<5.5 nsec).
Keywords: nucleic acids, nuclear magnetic resonance of alkali ions
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