The interaction of the 16-mer synthetic peptide (A beta(16)), which represents the metal-binding domain of the amyloid-beta with DNA, was studied employing the surface plasmon resonance technique. It has been shown that A beta(16) binds to the duplex DNA in the presence of zinc ions and thus the metal-binding domain can serve as a zinc-dependent DNA-binding site of the amyloid-beta. The interaction of A beta(16) with DNA most probably depends on oligomerization of the peptide and is dominated by interaction with phosphates of the DNA backbone.