Journal
BIOORGANIC & MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 17, Issue 2, Pages 484-491Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.bmc.2008.12.005
Keywords
Drug-DNA interactions; NMR spectroscopy; Topopyrones; Topoisomerase I inhibitors
Funding
- University of Milano
- MURST
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A water soluble derivative (2) of topopyrones was selected for NMR studies directed to elucidate the mode of binding with specific oligonucleotides. Topopyrone 2 can intercalate into the CG base pairs, but the residence time into the double helix is very short and a fast chemical exchange averaging occurs at room temperature between the free and bound species. The equilibria involved become slow below room temperature, thus allowing to measure a mean lifetime of the complex of ca. 7 ms at 15 degrees C. Structural models of the complex with d(CGTACG)(2) were developed on the basis of DOSY, 2D NOESY and P-31 NMR experiments. Topopyrone 2 presents a strong tendency to self-associate. In the presence of oligonucleotide a certain number of ligand molecules are found to externally stack to the double-helix, in addition to a small fraction of the same ligand intercalated. The external binding to the ionic surface of the phosphoribose chains may thus represents the first step of the intercalation process. (C) 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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