Studies on the structure and chirality of A-motif in adenosine monophosphate nucleotide metal coordination complexes

Muhammad Javed Iqbal, Zhongkui Li, Maroof Ahmad Khan, Yanhong Zhu, Wajid Hussain, Hao Su, Qi Ming Qiu, Rizwan Shoukat, Hui Li*

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Abstract

Nucleotide constructs B-DNA and non-B DNA. Non-B DNA leads to the genetic instability, genetic diseases and rearrangement of bases. The adenine-adenine base pair mismatch (A-motif) is considered to be the origin of some types of diseases unknown to humanity. One of the stumbling blocks in the study of the mismatched base pairs is short of the structural evidences or details, which arises from the difficulties of crystallizing the nucleotide compounds. Towards this aim, we have designed and constructed three 1D coordination polymers, namely {[Cd(bpe)(HdAMP)2(H2O)2]·(bpe)·(CH3OH)·4H2O}n(1), {[Mn(bpe)(HdAMP)2(H2O)2]·(bpe)·8H2O}n(2) and {[Cd(AMP)(bpe)(H2O)3]·7H2O}n(3). All of them have been characterized structurallyviasingle crystal X-ray diffraction. The complexes1and2have A-motif structures, while the complex3does not have the A-motif structure. The intermolecular recognition and interactions for the construction of A-motif have been described according to the comprehensive analysis of single crystal structures. It is a rare report on A-motif single crystals in the field of nucleotide coordination polymers. Moreover, the chiralities of the three complexes have been investigated by the combination of single crystal structure and solid-state chiral dichroism (CD) spectroscopy. In this study, for the first time, the novel supramolecular chirality of extending axial chirality (EAC) has been confirmed by complex3as an excellent example, and complexes1and2as a counterexample.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)4175-4180
Number of pages6
JournalCrystEngComm
Volume23
Issue number23
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 21 Jun 2021

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Iqbal, M. J., Li, Z., Khan, M. A., Zhu, Y., Hussain, W., Su, H., Qiu, Q. M., Shoukat, R., & Li, H. (2021). Studies on the structure and chirality of A-motif in adenosine monophosphate nucleotide metal coordination complexes. CrystEngComm, 23(23), 4175-4180. https://doi.org/10.1039/d1ce00276g