Biomesogens and Their Models: Possibilities of Mesomorphic Order in

14 Biomesogens a n d T h e i r M o d e l s : Possibilities of M e s o m o r p h i c O r d e r in P o l y n u c l e o t i d e Analogues

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S. HOFFMANN and W. WITKOWSKI Department of Chemistry, Martin Luther University, DDR-40 Halle/S. and Central Institute of Microbiology and Experimental Therapy, Academy of Sciences of the GDR, DDR-69 Jena, East Germany

It seems that life - originated in the fluctuating interfaces of the primordial earth - escaped the threatening a l t e r n a t i v e s of a stiffening death w i t h i n the s t i c k y h i e r a r c h i e s of crystalline order and a senseless end of v a n i s h i n g i n t o the rather infinite fields of fluidity by occupying the s m a l l b o r d e r l i n e s between the kingdoms of order and the surrounding chaos with a m p h i p h i l i c s p e c i e s , fitted to those very housing c o n d i t i o n s , enabled to use and amplify the advantages and to avoid and minimize the traps of this bipartite w o r l d , driven forward between the d i a lectics of excessive statics and dynamics i n t o the d e v e l o p i n g , e n l a r g i n g , o p t i m i z i n g spatial and temporal i n t e r c o n n e c t i v e networks of complicated mesomorphic o r g a n i z a t i o n s . The ancient pool of n e a r l y omnip o t e n t i a l macromolecules - b u i l t up from those amphiphilic moieties - developed i n t o the specializations of i n f o r m a t i v e , f u n c t i o n a l and compartimentive p a r t ners (Figure 1 ) , conserving below the s k i n of t h e i r specific adjustments the continued p r i m i t i v e u n i v e r sality of the origin. Thus, w h i l e a first sudden glance might connect the s t r u c t u r a l features of nucleic acids with i n f o r m a t i o n , those of p r o t e i n s with f u n c t i o n and the remaining c h a r a c t e r i s t i c s of membrane components with compartimentation, a nearer and more d e t a i l e d intimacy with the three dominants of our t o day biopolymeric o r g a n i z a t i o n s seems to reveal much broader ranges of d i f f e r e n t abilities, merging the classical view of i n t e r a c t i n g s t r u c t u r a l i n d i v i d u a l s i n t o the newer aspect of f l u c t u a t i n g mosaics of mut u a l domain cooperativities, where s t e r e o e l e c t r o n i c patterns of interchanging parts of the competitors of the great o l d game anneal i n t o space and time dependent networks of p r e c i s e l y tuned s t e r e o e l e c t r o n i c fits of newly gained u n i t s of complex mesomorphic do0-8412-0419-5/78/47-074-178$12.50/0 © 1978 American Chemical Society Blumstein; Mesomorphic Order in Polymers ACS Symposium Series; American Chemical Society: Washington, DC, 1978.

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systems. T h i s v i e w a l s o seems to p r o v i d e a b e t t e r under s t a n d i n g f o r an as w e l l b a s i c as c u r i o u s phenomenon, a s p e c i a l c h a r a c t e r i s t i c of biopolyelectrolytic s y s t e m s : the time independent but d i r e c t i o n a l hyste r e s i s , t h a t seems to have g o v e r n e d not o n l y the first i n t e r c h a n g e s i n the p r i m o r d i a l o m n i p o t e n t i a l polyelect r o l y t i c p o o l , but r u l e d , a c c e l e r a t e d and d i r e c t i o n e d t h e d r i v i n g f o r c e s o f i n f o r m a t i o n p r o c e s s i n g s on to the o p t i m i z a t i o n s i n t o the very regions of the central n e r v o u s s y s t e m s of o u r s p e c i e s . The i n c r e a s i n g efforts of the l a s t years i n e l u c i d a t i n g those e f f e c t s are do m i n a t e d m a i n l y by t h e b a s i c i n v e s t i g a t i o n s o f Neumann and K a t c h a l s k y ( 1 - 4 ) « F o l l o w i n g the a c i d - b a s e t i t r a t i o n s t i m u l u s ο t Cox and c o w o r k e r s (5) in the case of rRNA, they d e m o n s t r a t e d the i m p o r t a n c e of generally l o n g - l i v e d m e t a s t a b i l i t i e s and p a r t i c u l a r l y hysteresis phenomena i n b i o p o l y e l e c t r o l y t i c o r g a n i z a t i o n s for b o t h r e g u l a t i o n phenomena and memory i m p r i n t s i n b i o organisms . In t h e i r hands the 2 p o l y ( U ) · p o l y ( A ) triplex a d v a n c e d as a f i r s t s t a r m o d e l n o t o n l y f o r t h e i n v e s t i g a t i o n of h y s t e r e s i s phenomena by spectrophoto m e t r y as w e l l as p o t e n t i o m e t r i c a c i d - b a s e titrations, but a l s o as a f i r s t d e m o n s t r a t i o n o b j e c t f o r inducing l o n g - l i v e d c o n f o r m a t i o n a l changes i n metastable b i o p o l y m e r i c o r g a n i z a t i o n s by e l e c t r i c f i e l d p u l s e s , surprisingly i n the o r d e r of the a c t i o n p o t e n t i a l s of the n e r v o u s membrane (3,4,6). F r o m t h i s a n d f u r t h e r i n v e s t i g a t i o n s a new i n t r i guing dynamic p i c t u r e of b i o s p h e r e emerged, where bio p o l y e l e c t r o l y t i c s y s t e m s , s e n s i t i z e d by t h e i r out s t a n d i n g c h a r a c t e r i s t i c s of e x h i b i t i n g metastabilities and m o l e c u l a r h y s t e r e s e s t o p a s s i v e r é g u l â t i o n s f rom e n v i r o n m e n t a l e l e c t r o m a g n e t i c i n f l u e n c e s and v i c e versa active mediations into self-governed areas, gain the p o s s i b i l i t i e s of elementary cybernetic units with the s p e c i a l f a c i l i t i e s of t ransducer f u n c t i o n s i n gene r a l a n d memory r e c o r d i n g s a n d s t i m u l a t i o n s o f b i o rhythms i n p a r t i c u l a r ( 2 , 7 , 8 ) . The l i s t o f e x a m p l e s and a p p l i c a t i o n s has been e n l a r g e d i n the meantime not o n l y i n the f i e l d of p o l y n u c l e o t i d e s ( 9 - 1 4 ) , but also i n t h e w i d e s p r e a d a r e a s o f p r o t e i n s ( 1 5 - 1 7 ) a n d membrane components (18-23) , thus u n d e r l i n i n g the early p r e d i c t i o n of m e t a s t a b i i i t i e s and m o l e c u l a r hysteresis p h e n o m e n a a s common f e a t u r e s to a l l b i o p o l y e l e c t r o l y tic m o i e t i e s . In these days they cumulated in the i n t e r e s t i n g and i m p o r t a n t r e s u l t s of a f i r s t demons t r a t i o n as a w o r k i n g p r i n c i p l e i n a b i o l o g i c a l p r o c e s s . S c h n e i d e r and c o w o r k e r s (24,25) demonstrated by means o f a s p e c i a l f l o w r e a c t o r t h e f a s c i n a t i n g , but

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y e t somehow e x p e c t e d d e p e n d e n c e o f the a c c u r a c y o f e n z y m i c r e a d i n g a t e m p l a t e f r o m t h e v e r y way o f d o i n g t h i s , thus p r o v i d i n g f o r the f i r s t time evidence for the c a p a b i l i t i e s of h y s t e r e s i s in governing not only the s p a c e , but a l s o the l o n g l y f o r g o t t e n time dependent h i e r a r c h i e s of b i o r e g u l a t i o n s . While these res u l t s s e e m t o o p e n a new f i e l d i n s t u d y i n g chronobiol o g i c a l i n t e r r e l a t i o n s h i p s on t h e l e v e l o f interacting n a t i v e s y s t e m s , o u r own e f f o r t s in this context start e d a n d r e m a i n e d up t o now f a r b e l o w t h o s e l e v e l s of high-ranking ambitions (7,14,26). S t i m u l a t e d by t h e e a r l y e t f o r t s o f Langenbeck ( 2 7 ) t o c r e a t e a n d b u i l d up s o m e s o r t o f biomimetic cTTêmis t ry a t a t i m e when t h e s e a s p e c t s had s c a r c e l y b e e n n o t i c e d , we i n t e n d e d t o s t a r t a p r o g r a m o f m o d e l l i n g c e r t a i n a s p e c t s of the h i t h e r t o yet inaccessible j u n g l e s of n a t i v e b i o p o l y m e r i c i n t e r a c t i o n s . In this c o n t e x t we t r i e d t o a d d f u r t h e r e v i d e n c e f o r molecular h y s t e r e s e s o f some p o l y n u c l e o t i d e t r i p l e x e s (7,12-14), t h a t m i g h t d i s p l a y some r e g u l a t o r y functions in biological viro-, c a n c e r o - and immunemodulations ( 2 8 - 3 2 ) . L o o k i n g f o r the b a s a l f e a t u r e s of b a s e - s t a c k and strand-pattern i n t e r r e l a t i o n s and i n t e r a c t i o n possib i l i t i e s , i t seemed to u s , t h a t the w i d e l y enlarging c h e m i s t r y of t h e r m o t r o p i c mesogens (33) - e s p e c i a l l y in the case of u s i n g h e t e r o c y c l i c reTa*tives ( 3 4 , 3 5 ) o f n u c l e i c a c i d b a s e s as c e n t r a l p a r t s - s h o u l d p r o v i d e r a t h e r g o o d m o d e l s , f i t t i n g some s i m p l e r a s p e c t s of t h e r m o t r o p i c behaviour in the hydrophobic mesomorp h i c core r e g i o n of p o l y n u c l e o t i d e s . Yet the clearly d i s t r i b u t e d m o l e c u l a r mesogen c h a r a c t e r i s t i c s of our s y n t h e t i c l i q u i d c r y s t a l s and t h e i r t h e o r e t i c a l extrap o l a t i o n s i n t o the ordered i n t e r a c t i o n f i e l d s of large e n s e m b l e s do n o t o n l y seem t o o v e r e m p h a s i z e rather s e c o n d a r y and l o g i c a l l y d e l i c a t e s u b c a t e g o r i z a t i o n s ( l y o t ropy and thermot r o p y ) , but might moreover block t h e i r own s c i e n t i f i c d e v e l o p m e n t i n t o t h e cooperative domain systems of mesogen b i o p o l y m e r i c organizations. To b r i d g e t h i s gap b e t w e e n symmet ry i n v i t r o m o d e l s and asymmetrically directed in vivo r e a l i t i e s , it seemed t e m p t i n g , not o n l y to s t u d y p o l y m e r i c mesogens - m a i n l y b u i l t up f r o m c l a s s i c a l m e s o m o r p h i c m o n o mers - as i t has been e x c e l l e n t l y d e m o n s t r a t e d by the groups of B l u m s t e i n , R i n g s d o r f , C s e r , Hardy, Amerik, S t r z e l e c k i , Tanaka a . o . ( 3 6 - 4 6 ) , or to look for mesogen a r e a s even i n t e c h n i c a l p r o d u c t s ( 4 7 ) , but moreover to use s i m p l i f i e d p o t e n t i a l l y mesogenic biop o l y m e r i c systems - "mesogen" here i n the s e n s e of domain c h a r a c t e r i s t i c s rather than in d e s c r i b i n g l a r g e r ensemble areas - for m o d e l l i n g parts of these



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complex n a t u r a l i n t e r d e p e n d e n c e s . Thus w i t h i n the framework of our i n t e r e s t s i n m e t a s t a b i l i t i e s and hysteresis p h e n o m e n a i n b i o r e g u l a t i o n s , we t r i e d to model n u c l e i c a c i d s from a g r e a t e r d i s t a n c e and to check t h e s e s i m u l a t i o n s i n ( b i o ) p h y s i c a l and b i o l o g i cal i n t e r a c t i o n s t u d i e s . The s o o n e m e r g i n g possibili t i e s f o r p r a c t i c a l a p p l i c a t i o n s t h e n l e d to a more g e n e r a l c o n c e p t i o n o f s t r a n g e n i n g n u c l e i c a c i d s on different l e v e l s of s t e r e o e l e c t r o n i c f i t , utilizing both n a t i v e monotonie s e q u e n c e s and s y n t h e t i c a l monoand o l i g o m e r i c b a s e - p a i r a n a l o g u e s as w e l l as poly m e r i c s t r a n d a n a l o g u e s i n c o m p e t i t i v e and a l i o s t e r i c i n t e r a c t i o n s t u d i e s ( F i g u r e 2 ) . M o d e l l i n g and varying the mesogen domain c o m p o s i t i o n s of n a t i v e s y s t e m s not o n l y by s m a l l n o n m e s o g e n i c a n t i m e t a b o l i t e s b u t also by a t l e a s t p a r t i a l l y m e s o g e n i c a n t i t e m p l a t e s (Figure 3), we h o p e d t o a d j u s t o u r e f f e c t o r s to t h e i r wanted l e v e l s of e f f i c i e n c y r a t h e r t h a n to m i s u s e them f o r a pure jamming of m e t a b o l i c pathways. Materials

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Base-Pair Analogues 2.7-bis - [(dialkylaminoand {oxa}oligoalkylenimino)-acetylamino]-fluo ren-9-ones ("fluoramides" 1-5) w e r e p r e p a r e d v i a the corresponding 2 . 7 - b i s - [(chloroacetyl)-amino]-fluoren-9-one by a procedure described recently (56); see also (57). Vinylmonomers f o r Homo- and C o p o l y m e r i z a t i o n R e actions 1-Vinyluracil, 9-viny1hypoxanthine, and 9 v i n y l a d e n i n e w e r e p r e p a r e d by p r e v i o u s l y described methods ( 5 8 - 6 2 ) , 1 - v i n y l c y t o s i n e by t h e a m m o n o l y s i s of l-vinyl-4-methylthiopyrimidine-2-one (62,63). Polynucleotide Strand-Analogues The following p o l y m e r s ( T a b l e s I and II) w e r e p r e p a r e d by A I B N - o r f-ray induced (Laboratory R a d i a t i o n U n i t R C H - y - 3 0 as a ^OCo-source) p o l y m e r i z a t i o n and copolymerization reactions, respectively, followed in case of (vA, l v O H 3 o . 7 ) n by a p o l y m e r a n a l o g o u s r e a c t i o n . The start i n g amounts of N - v i n y l n u c l e o b a s e s and t h e i r comonomers were a d j u s t e d to y i e l d a n e a r l y 1 : 1 - r a t i o i n the copolymers. Sedimentation Experiments Sedimentation measurements were c a r r i e d out u s i n g a S p i n c o Model E u l tracentrifuge, e q u i p p e d w i t h an u l t r a v i o l e t absorption o p t i c , a monochromator and a p h o t o e l e c t r i c a l s c a n n e r , i n a way p r e v i o u s l y d e s c r i b e d (66). Base-Pairing Experiments Methods employed for b a s e - p a i r c o m p l e x a t i o n have been d e s c r i b e d previously ( 6 2 , 6 4 , 7 3 , 7 4 ) . U l t r a v i o l e t m i x i n g and t h e r m a l profile e x p e r i m e n t s w e r e p e r f o r m e d a c c o r d i n g t o common p r o c e dures ( 7 3 , 7 4 ) . S p e c t r a f o r mixing curves were measur e d w i t h an U n i c a m S P 1 8 0 0 s p e c t r o p h o t o m e t e r (62,64, 7 5 ) * M e l t i n g c u r v e s w e r e run on t h e same s p e c t r o m e t e r , e q u i p p e d w i t h a SP 871 t e m p e r a t u r e program c o n t r ô l e r ( 6 2 , 6 4 , 7 5 ) . ORD s p e c t r a w e r e m a d e o n a 3 a s c o 0R0/UV-5 spectrometer, and the c i r c u l a r d i c h r o i c s p e c t r a were r e c o r d e d on a Gary M o d e l 6 0 s p e c t r o m e t e r , e q u i p p e d w i t h a M o d e l 6 0 0 1 CD a c c e s s o r y (64,75,76). Electron-Microscopic Studies taken at 36.000 · m a g n i f i c a t i o n s i n a c c o r d i n g to procedures p r e v i o u s l y Hysteresis m e a s u r e m e n t s by

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AIBN

Ade

COO Ν a

(66,68)

t AIBN

Ade

COON a

(66,68)

Ade

S0 Na

(75)

AIBN

Ade

OH

(65,66)

A I BN

Ade

C0NH

AIBN

Ade

2-pyrrolidone1-yl

AIBN

)

(75)

Ade

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(75)

Ade

imidazol-l-yl

(75)

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Ade

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(75)

n

n

n

(75)

2

AIBN

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1 > 1

3

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Ura

COO Ν a

(67,68)

Cyt

COON a

(69,75)

Cyt

COO Ν a

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COON a

(62,75)

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triplexes ( Ι ) · ( Α ) · ( Ι ) and ( U ) - ( Α ) · ( I ) were car r i e d o u t as p r e v i o u s l y d e s c r i b e d ( 1 2 - 1 4 , 7 2 ) , u s i n g the t e c h n i q u e s o f Neumann and K a t c h a l s k y ( 1 , 2 , 4 ) . Titra tions were performed in a m o d i f i e d USP-2 spectrometer o f t h e A c a d e m y o f S c i e n c e s o f t h e G D R , w i t h a pH r a n g i n g from 7 . 1 to 3 . 2 5 . η

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Base and s u g a r v a r i a n t s of n u c l e o s i d e s and n u c l e o t i d e s h a v e b e e n d e a l t w i t h i n t h e p a s t i n an a b u n dance, n e a r l y i n c a p a b l e f o r r e v i e w s , monographs or even reference journals (26,121-123). While these var i a n t s of a f i r s t and s e c o n d g e n e r a t i o n o f analogues s t i l l c o n t i n u e a t t r a c t i n g the a t t e n t i o n of people i n t e r e s t e d i n n u c l e i c a c i d chemis t ry and i t s applicat i o n s ( 1 2 3 ) , b e g i n n i n g w i t h the 1960s a t h i r d generat i o n of n u c l e i c a c i d s i m u l a t i o n s emerged from the f l o o d of s t e r e o e l e c t r o n i c i m i t a t i o n s : f a r or l e s s d i s t a n t l y m o d e l l e d s t r a n d a n a l o g u e s r e v e a l e d some import a n c e f o r both t h e o r e t i c a l l y and p r a c t i c a l l y oriented investigations i n the f i e l d of b i o p o l y m e r s and their interaction possibilities (26,58-61,97,124-131). To d e a l o n l y w i t h t h o s e s t r u c t u r e s , modelled from a g r e a t e r d i s t a n c e , there opened f o r s y n t h e t i c a l app r o a c h e s ways of p o l y c o n d e n s a t i o n , p o l y a d d i t i o n freer a d i c a l , photochemical, or ^-ray induced polymerizations or polymeranalogous reactions, possibilities t h a t h a v e b e e n met i n t h e m e a n t i m e by n u m e r o u s synthetic efforts, r e v i e w e d a l r e a d y by d i f f e r e n t authors (26,59,97,128-130,132,133). " As a compromise between the s c r e e n i n g p o s t u l a t i o n s of r a p i d and u n c o m p l i c a t e d a c c e s s to h i g h molec u l a r systems (due to the s e l e c t i o n s of a s i z e criter i o n for i n t e r a c t i o n p o s s i b i l i t i e s of biopolymers within bioregulation hierarchies ( 1 3 4 ) ) by a r o u t e i n d e p e n d e n t f rom t h e n a t u r a l p o l y c o n d e n s a t i o n way (due to a g r e a t e r s u i t a b i l i t y f o r the a l t e r n a t i v e s of matrix polymerizations) and a c e r t a i n degree of stereoe l e c t r o n i c order of our s y n t h e t i e s (due to the desire f o r r e p r o d u c i b i l i t y and f i t of o u r systerns i n their possible interactions with biopolymers) we started



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s t r a n d d e s i g n at l e a s t to a c e r t a i n degree to wanted l e v e l s of e f f i c i e n c y - r e v e a l a c t i v i t é s , which might be r e g a r d e d ( a s s i s t e d by t h e r e s u l t s o f t h e M e r t e s group (133) of b l o c k i n g d e f i n e d p r o t e i n s ) not o n l y in terms ot the mentioned o b s t r u c t i o n of m e t a b o l i c p a t h ways by u n s p e c i f i c i n t e r a c t i o n s , b u t p e r h a p s as early beginnings of a biomesogen s i m u l a t i o n chemistry, trying t o r e a c h t h e g o a l s o f n a t i v e b i o p o l y m e r s and by t h i s , d e v e l o p i n g t h e i r mesogen a s p e c t s from the u n d i r e c t i o n e d games o f l a r g e e n s e m b l e s o f r a t h e r "unint e l l i g e n t " i n d i v i d u a l s to the d i r e c t i o n e d domain c o o p é r â t i v i t i e s of " i n t e l l i g e n t " s t e r e o e l e c t r o n i c units. Final

Remarks

Yet at t h i s point the q u e s t i o n remains nevertheless without any d e f i n i t e a n s w e r , if there is any sense i n m o d e l l i n g the h i g h l y evolved b i o p o l y m e r i c mes o g e n s o f o u r t o d a y l i f e by d u l l and a t t h i s s t a g e of refinement o v e r s i m p l i f i e d a n a l o g u e s , w i t h the presumption of using those s i m u l a t i o n s a f t e r a t h i n k a b l e p r o c e s s of refinement and a d j u s t m e n t for assisting and even i m p r o v i n g o p t i m i z e d p a t t e r n of n a t u r a l efficiency. It i s p a r t of the q u e s t i o n w e t h e r man-made s t e r e o e l e c t r o n i c p a t t e r n c o u l d a c t not o n l y as c o m p e t i t o r s , b u t m i g h t a d v a n c e for s u b s t i t u t e s a n d partners of the n a t i v e s of the great process.

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