Journal
BIOMETALS
Volume 23, Issue 1, Pages 99-118Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10534-009-9271-y
Keywords
Zinc(II) ternary complex; Duplex and quadruplex DNA binding; Nucleolytic; Topo I inhibition; Molecular modeling; Docking
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- MOSTI of Malaysia [02-02-11-SF0033]
- CNPq [Proc. 472237/2008-0]
- Fundunesp [Proc. 00525/08DFP]
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Crystal structure analysis of the zinc complex establishes it as a distorted octahedral complex, bis(3-methylpicolinato-kappa(2) N,O)(2)(1,10-phenanthroline-kappa(2) N,N)-zinc(II) pentahydrate, [Zn(3-Me-pic)(2)(phen)]center dot 5H(2)O. The trans-configuration of carbonyl oxygen atoms of the carboxylate moieties and orientation of the two planar picolinate ligands above and before the phen ligand plane seems to confer DNA sequence recognition to the complex. It cannot cleave DNA under hydrolytic condition but can slightly be activated by hydrogen peroxide or sodium ascorbate. Circular Dichroism and Fluorescence spectroscopic analysis of its interaction with various duplex polynucleotides reveals its binding mode as mainly intercalation. It shows distinct DNA sequence binding selectivity and the order of decreasing selectivity is ATAT > AATT > CGCG. Docking studies lead to the same conclusion on this sequence selectivity. It binds strongly with G-quadruplex with human tolemeric sequence 5'-AG(3)(T(2)AG(3))(3)-3', can inhibit topoisomerase I efficiently and is cytotoxic against MCF-7 cell line.
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