title: Cadmium chelation by bacterial teichoic acid from solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy.
abstract: An effective means of studying biological metal chemistry is through the use of cadmium NMR to probe the interaction between biomolecules, such as proteins and peptides, with divalent metals, such as zinc, copper, magnesium, or calcium. Gram-positive bacteria, such as S. aureus and B. subtilis , have peptidoglycan cell walls that contain teichoic acids, a poly(phosphodiester) biopolymer used for, among other things, metal chelation. Previous solid-state NMR and XAFS studies have shown that the cadmium ion binds in a bidentate manner to the phosphoryl centers of the dried teichoic acid backbone at physiological pH. However, current studies indicate that, when hydrated and at the low concentrations typically found in nature, the cadmium ions and phosphoryl sites interact through an extended solvent-separated ion pairing. These data reveal two unequal P-Cd interactions at distances of 4.2 and 4.9 A set approximately 180 degrees from each other in a linear arrangement.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Oklahoma, Norman, 73019, USA.
authors.forename: Jeffrey L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Halye
authors.forename: Charles V
authors.initials: CV
authors.lastname: Rice
mesh_terms: D002104:Cadmium / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism; D002614:Chelating Agents / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism; D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy / Q000379:methods*; D011485:Protein Binding / Q000502:physiology; D017433:Protein Structure, Secondary; D013682:Teichoic Acids / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D002614:Chelating Agents; D013682:Teichoic Acids; D002104:Cadmium