Mukhopadhyay R, Mookerjee A. Effect of gamma-irradiation on dye-DNA binding.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RADIATION BIOLOGY AND RELATED STUDIES IN PHYSICS, CHEMISTRY, AND MEDICINE 1976;
30:543-56. [PMID:
1087294 DOI:
10.1080/09553007614551401]
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Abstract
The effect of gamma-rays on the binding of proflavine and acridine orange to DNA was investigated by spectrophotometry. The effect of irradiation was observed on the buffered solutions of the free dye and free DNA. A dose of about 35 krad caused a hyperchromicity of 30-40 per cent to the DNA peak at 258 nm, while the same dose introduced a hypochromic effect to the monomer peaks of the dyes by 30 per cent. This implied that gamma-rays have an effect of decreasing the monomer concentration of free-day molecules in solution. From the results, we conclude that more dye is bound to the changed conformation of dye-bound DNA on irradiation. Scratchard-binding isotherms drawn for the unirradiated and irradiated complexes of Pf-DNA showed interesting differences. Similar isotherms could not be obtained for the acridine orange-DNA system.
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