PMID- 15612689 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20050228 LR - 20131121 IS - 0002-7863 (Print) IS - 0002-7863 (Linking) VI - 126 IP - 51 DP - 2004 Dec 29 TI - c-di-GMP displays a monovalent metal ion-dependent polymorphism. PG - 16700-1 AB - Cyclic diguanosine monophosphate (c-di-GMP) is known to be an important signaling molecule that regulates the formation of bacterial biofilms. We demonstrate here by UV, CD, and NMR that it displays a surprising polymorphism that varies with the monovalent counterion and is consistent with the formation of a G-quartet structure in K+ and a stacked structure in Li+ or Na+. The ability of this rigid molecule to adopt different alignments may be important to its biological role. FAU - Zhang, Zhaoying AU - Zhang Z AD - Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, 610 Taylor Road, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA. FAU - Gaffney, Barbara L AU - Gaffney BL FAU - Jones, Roger A AU - Jones RA LA - eng GR - EB 002809/EB/NIBIB NIH HHS/United States PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S. PL - United States TA - J Am Chem Soc JT - Journal of the American Chemical Society JID - 7503056 RN - 0 (Cations, Monovalent) RN - 0 (Metals, Alkali) RN - 61093-23-0 (bis(3',5')-cyclic diguanylic acid) RN - H2D2X058MU (Cyclic GMP) SB - IM MH - Cations, Monovalent MH - Circular Dichroism MH - Cyclic GMP/*analogs & derivatives/*chemistry MH - Metals, Alkali/*chemistry MH - Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Biomolecular MH - Spectrophotometry, Ultraviolet EDAT- 2004/12/23 09:00 MHDA- 2005/03/01 09:00 CRDT- 2004/12/23 09:00 PHST- 2004/12/23 09:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2005/03/01 09:00 [medline] PHST- 2004/12/23 09:00 [entrez] AID - 10.1021/ja0449832 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - J Am Chem Soc. 2004 Dec 29;126(51):16700-1. doi: 10.1021/ja0449832.