The Binding of DNA Intercalating and Non-Intercalating Compounds to A-form and Protonated form of Poly(rC)Æpoly(rG): Spectroscopic and Viscometric Study
IR@IICB: CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Kolkata
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The Binding of DNA Intercalating and Non-Intercalating
Compounds to A-form and Protonated form of
Poly(rC)Æpoly(rG): Spectroscopic and Viscometric Study
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Sinha, Rangana
Islam, Md. Maidul Bhadra, Kakali Kumar, G Suresh Banerjee, Anamika Maiti, Motilal |
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Chemistry
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Abstract—Polymorphic RNA conformations may serve as potential targets for structure specific antiviral agents. As an initial step in the development of such drugs, the interaction of a wide variety of compounds which are characterized to bind to DNA through classical or partial intercalation or by mechanism of groove binding, with the A-form and the protonated form of poly(rC)Æpoly(rG),
been evaluated by multifaceted spectroscopic and viscometric techniques. Results of this study suggest that (i) ethidium intercalates to the A-form of RNA, but does not intercalate to the protonated form, (ii) methylene blue intercalates to the protonated form of the RNA but does not intercalate to the A-form, (iii) actinomycin D does not bind to either conformations of the RNA, and (iv)
berberine binds to the protonated form by partial intercalation process, while its binding to the A-form is very weak. The DNA groove binder distamycin A has much higher affinity to the protonated form of the RNA compared to the A-form and binds to both structures by non-intercalative mechanism. We conclude that the binding affinity characteristics of these DNA binding molecules
to the RNA conformations are vastly different and may serve as data for the development of RNA based antiviral drugs.
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2006
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Article
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application/pdf
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http://www.eprints.iicb.res.in/1115/1/BIOORGANIC_%26_MEDICINAL_CHEMISTRY__Volume_14___Issue_3___Pages_800%2D814___[133].pdf
Sinha, Rangana and Islam, Md. Maidul and Bhadra, Kakali and Kumar, G Suresh and Banerjee, Anamika and Maiti, Motilal (2006) The Binding of DNA Intercalating and Non-Intercalating Compounds to A-form and Protonated form of Poly(rC)Æpoly(rG): Spectroscopic and Viscometric Study. Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry, 14 (3). pp. 800-814. |
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.bmc.2005.09.007
http://www.eprints.iicb.res.in/1115/ |
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