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ORGANIC & BIOMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY
Volume 8, Issue 3, Pages 648-654Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/b918252g
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- Wellcome Trust
- Biotechnology and Biochemical Research Council
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The interaction of the ethylene-bipyridyldiylium-naphthaphenazine dication, dqdppn, with several hexa- and octanucleotide duplexes has been studied using CD and NMR. Taken together, these studies reveal that with the hexanucleotide, dqdppn intercalates into the terminal base pair, and causes a large twisting of the terminal base pair. In contrast, with all three octanucleotides, dqdppn intercalates more centrally within the sequence. The NMR-derived structures of two of the binding complexes demonstrate that dqdppn intercalates from the major groove in an unusual 'side-on' geometry, rather than threading through the helix. An analysis of these results indicates that the preferred binding site is not sequence-specific, but primarily at the most conformationally flexible DNA step.
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