The metallo DNA duplex containing mercury-mediated T-T base pairs is an attractive biomacromolecular nanomaterial which can be applied to nanodevices such as ion sensors. Reported herein is the first crystal structure of a B-form DNA duplex containing two consecutive T-Hg(II)-T base pairs. The Hg(II) ion occupies the center between two T residues. The N3-Hg(II) bond distance is 2.0 Å. The relatively short Hg(II)-Hg(II) distance (3.3 Å) observed in consecutive T-Hg(II)-T base pairs suggests that the metallophilic attraction could exist between them and may stabilize the B-form double helix. To support this, the DNA duplex is largely distorted and adopts an unusual nonhelical conformation in the absence of Hg(II). The structure of the metallo DNA duplex itself and the Hg(II)-induced structural switching from the nonhelical form to the B-form provide the basis for structure-based design of metal-conjugated nucleic acid nanomaterials.

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In this paper, we propose the Iso-directional Recurrence Plots(IDRP) and its techniques. In IDRP, characterization of vectors on orbits reconstructed from the time series data is represented on a twodimensional plane, similarly to the Recurrence Plots(RP). In addition, we also propose Iso-directional Neigh bors Plots(IDNP) which is the product set of RP and IDRP. IDNP shows the set of points that are neighbors and possess similar directions. We apply the proposed methods to various data such as chaotic and stochastic time series, and compare IDNP with the method proposed by Wayland et al. for recognizing determinism. The property of the results is similar to that of Wayland method, and thus IDNP is applicable to the analysis of determinism. Since the proposed methods in this paper are based on RP, not only quantitative analysis of determinism but also qualitative observation of the behavior of time series are possible with time series data.

The metallo DNA duplex containing mercurymediated T-T base pairs is an attractive biomacromolecular nanomaterial which can be applied to nanodevices such as ion sensors. Reported herein is the first crystal structure of a Bform DNA duplex containing two consecutive T-Hg II -T base pairs. The Hg II ion occupies the center between two T residues. The N3-Hg II bond distance is 2.0 . The relatively short Hg II -Hg II distance (3.3 ) observed in consecutive T-Hg II -T base pairs suggests that the metallophilic attraction could exist between them and may stabilize the B-form double helix. To support this, the DNA duplex is largely distorted and adopts an unusual nonhelical conformation in the absence of Hg II . The structure of the metallo DNA duplex itself and the Hg IIinduced structural switching from the nonhelical form to the Bform provide the basis for structure-based design of metalconjugated nucleic acid nanomaterials.

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