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JOURNAL OF BIOMOLECULAR STRUCTURE & DYNAMICS
Volume 28, Issue 5, Pages 805-814Publisher
ADENINE PRESS
DOI: 10.1080/07391102.2011.10508608
Keywords
DNA interaction; Pd(II) complex; Dithiocarbamate; 1,10-phenanthroline; Cytotoxicity
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- University of Sistan and Baluchestan
- University of Tehran
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A novel palladium(II) complex has been synthesized with hexyldithiocarbamate (Flex-the) and 1,10-phenanthroline (phen) by the reaction of [Pd(phen)(H2O2)(2)](NO3)(2) with sodium salt of hexyldithiocarbamate and a complex of type [Pd(Hex-dtc) (phen)]NO3 has been obtained. The complex has been characterized by elemental analysis, molar conductance, H-1 NMR, IR and electronic spectroscopic studies. The dithiocarbamate ligand acts in bidentate fashion. This water-soluble complex was screened against chronic myelogenous leukemia cell line, K562, for cytotoxic effects and showed significant antitumor activity much lower than that of cisplatin. The interaction of this complex with calf thymus DNA (ctDNA) was extensively investigated by a variety of spectroscopic techniques. Absorbance titration experiments imply the interaction of 4 Pd(II) complex molecules per 1000 nucleotides on DNA with positive cooperativity in the binding process and the complex denature the DNA at very low concentration (similar to 14.3 mu M). Fluorescence titration spectra and fluorescence Scatchard plots suggest that the Pd(II) complex intercalate in DNA. The gel chromatograms obtained from Sephadex G-25 column experiments showed that the binding of metal complex with DNA is so strong that it does not readily break. Furthermore, some thermodynamic and binding parameters found in the process of UV-Visible studies are described. They may provide specificity of the compound with ctDNA.
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