| Abstract: | A study of polymer-polymer interaction was made on several poly-L -lysines that contained pendant nucleic acid bases substituted on the N′ position. Conformation and interaction of these polypeptides were studied in solution by spectroscopic measurement. The results obtained suggest that the high-molecular-weight polymers form polymer complexes in a helical conformation by specific adenine-thymine base pairing. On the other hand, no interaction could be observed for the low-molecular-weight polymers, which existed in a random coil structure. |
