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NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH
Volume 41, Issue 1, Pages 632-638Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gks1001
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- Italian Ministero dell'Universita e della ricerca (MIUR)
- FUNZ. BILMAYA MED [1.12.05.01]
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The first crystal structure of human telomeric DNA in complex with the natural alkaloid berberine, produced by different plant families and used in folk medicine for millennia, was solved by X-ray diffraction method. The G-quadruplex unit features all-parallel strands. The overall folding assumed by DNA is the same found in previously reported crystal structures. Similarly to previously reported structures the ligand molecules were found to be stacked onto the external 5' and 3'-end G-tetrads. However, the present crystal structure highlighted for the first time, the presence of two berberine molecules in the two binding sites, directly interacting with each tetrad. As a consequence, our structural data point out a 2:1 ligand to G-tetrad molar ratio, which has never been reported before in a telomeric intramolecular quadruplex structure.
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