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Basaran I, Agafontsev AM, Morozov BS, Oshchepkov AS, Imhof P, Kataev EA. Effects of Ring Functionalization in Anthracene-Based Cyclophanes on the Binding Properties Toward Nucleotides and DNA. Chemistry 2024:e202402106. [PMID: 39110145 DOI: 10.1002/chem.202402106] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/30/2024] [Indexed: 10/04/2024]
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Supramolecular recognition of nucleobases and short sequences is an emerging research field focusing on possible applications to treat many diseases. Controlling the affinity and selectivity of synthetic receptors to target desired nucleotides or short sequences is a highly challenging task. Herein, we elucidate the effect of substituents in the phenyl ring of the anthracene-benzene azacyclophane on the recognition of nucleoside triphosphates (NTPs) and double-stranded DNA. We show that introducing phenyl rings increases the affinity for NTPs 10-fold and implements groove and intercalation binding modes with double-stranded DNA. NMR studies and molecular modeling calculations support the ability of cyclophanes to encapsulate nucleobases as part of nucleotides.
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- Ismet Basaran
- Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy, Friedrich-Alexander University (FAU) Erlangen-Nürnberg, 91052, Erlangen, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy, Friedrich-Alexander University (FAU) Erlangen-Nürnberg, 91052, Erlangen, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy, Friedrich-Alexander University (FAU) Erlangen-Nürnberg, 91052, Erlangen, Germany
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- Organic Chemistry Department, Institute of Chemistry Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, Kurt-Mothes-Straße 2, 06120, Halle, Germany
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- Computer Chemistry Center, Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy, Friedrich-Alexander University (FAU) Erlangen-Nürnberg, 91052, Erlangen, Germany
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- Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy, Friedrich-Alexander University (FAU) Erlangen-Nürnberg, 91052, Erlangen, Germany
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Godzieba M, Ciesielski S. Natural DNA Intercalators as Promising Therapeutics for Cancer and Infectious Diseases. Curr Cancer Drug Targets 2021; 20:19-32. [PMID: 31589125 DOI: 10.2174/1568009619666191007112516] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/28/2019] [Revised: 06/11/2019] [Accepted: 06/24/2019] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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Cancer and infectious diseases are one of the greatest challenges of modern medicine. An unhealthy lifestyle, the improper use of drugs, or their abuse are conducive to the increase of morbidity and mortality caused by these diseases. The imperfections of drugs currently used in therapy for these diseases and the increasing problem of drug resistance have forced a search for new substances with therapeutic potential. Throughout history, plants, animals, fungi and microorganisms have been rich sources of biologically active compounds. Even today, despite the development of chemistry and the introduction of many synthetic chemotherapeutics, a substantial part of the new compounds being tested for treatment are still of natural origin. Natural compounds exhibit a great diversity of chemical structures, and thus possess diverse mechanisms of action and molecular targets. Nucleic acids seem to be a good molecular target for substances with anticancer potential in particular, but they may also be a target for antimicrobial compounds. There are many types of interactions of small-molecule ligands with DNA. This publication focuses on the intercalation process. Intercalators are compounds that usually have planar aromatic moieties and can insert themselves between adjacent base pairs in the DNA helix. These types of interactions change the structure of DNA, leading to various types of disorders in the functioning of cells and the cell cycle. This article presents the most promising intercalators of natural origin, which have aroused interest in recent years due to their therapeutic potential.
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- Martyna Godzieba
- Department of Environmental Biotechnology, Faculty of Environmental Sciences, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, ul. Sloneczna 45 G, 10-917 Olsztyn, Poland
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- Department of Environmental Biotechnology, Faculty of Environmental Sciences, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, ul. Sloneczna 45 G, 10-917 Olsztyn, Poland
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Zimmerman SC. A journey in bioinspired supramolecular chemistry: from molecular tweezers to small molecules that target myotonic dystrophy. Beilstein J Org Chem 2016; 12:125-38. [PMID: 26877815 PMCID: PMC4734311 DOI: 10.3762/bjoc.12.14] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/11/2015] [Accepted: 01/06/2016] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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This review summarizes part of the author’s research in the area of supramolecular chemistry, beginning with his early life influences and early career efforts in molecular recognition, especially molecular tweezers. Although designed to complex DNA, these hosts proved more applicable to the field of host–guest chemistry. This early experience and interest in intercalation ultimately led to the current efforts to develop small molecule therapeutic agents for myotonic dystrophy using a rational design approach that heavily relies on principles of supramolecular chemistry. How this work was influenced by that of others in the field and the evolution of each area of research is highlighted with selected examples.
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- Steven C Zimmerman
- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois 61801, United States
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Granzhan A, Kotera N, Teulade-Fichou MP. Finding needles in a basestack: recognition of mismatched base pairs in DNA by small molecules. Chem Soc Rev 2014; 43:3630-65. [DOI: 10.1039/c3cs60455a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 84] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Jahromi AH, Fu Y, Miller KA, Nguyen L, Luu LM, Baranger AM, Zimmerman SC. Developing bivalent ligands to target CUG triplet repeats, the causative agent of myotonic dystrophy type 1. J Med Chem 2013; 56:9471-9481. [PMID: 24188018 DOI: 10.1021/jm400794z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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An expanded CUG repeat transcript (CUG(exp)) is the causative agent of myotonic dystrophy type 1 (DM1) by sequestering muscleblind-like 1 protein (MBNL1), a regulator of alternative splicing. On the basis of a ligand (1) that was previously reported to be active in an in vitro assay, we present the synthesis of a small library containing 10 dimeric ligands (4-13) that differ in length, composition, and attachment point of the linking chain. The oligoamino linkers gave a greater gain in affinity for CUG RNA and were more effective when compared to oligoether linkers. The most potent in vitro ligand (9) was shown to be aqueous-soluble and both cell- and nucleus-permeable, displaying almost complete dispersion of MBNL1 ribonuclear foci in a DM1 cell model. Direct evidence for the bioactivity of 9 was observed in its ability to disperse ribonuclear foci in individual live DM1 model cells using time-lapse confocal fluorescence microscopy.
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- Amin Haghighat Jahromi
- Center for Biophysics and Computational Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, USA.,Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, USA
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- Center for Biophysics and Computational Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, USA.,Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, USA
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Jourdan M, Granzhan A, Guillot R, Dumy P, Teulade-Fichou MP. Double threading through DNA: NMR structural study of a bis-naphthalene macrocycle bound to a thymine-thymine mismatch. Nucleic Acids Res 2012; 40:5115-28. [PMID: 22362757 PMCID: PMC3367172 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gks067] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/17/2023] Open
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The macrocyclic bis-naphthalene macrocycle (2,7-BisNP), belonging to the cyclobisintercalator family of DNA ligands, recognizes T–T mismatch sites in duplex DNA with high affinity and selectivity, as evidenced by thermal denaturation experiments and NMR titrations. The binding of this macrocycle to an 11-mer DNA oligonucleotide containing a T–T mismatch was studied using NMR spectroscopy and NMR-restrained molecular modeling. The ligand forms a single type of complex with the DNA, in which one of the naphthalene rings of the ligand occupies the place of one of the mismatched thymines, which is flipped out of the duplex. The second naphthalene unit of the ligand intercalates at the A-T base pair flanking the mismatch site, leading to encapsulation of its thymine residue via double stacking. The polyammonium linking chains of the macrocycle are located in the minor and the major grooves of the oligonucleotide and participate in the stabilization of the complex by formation of hydrogen bonds with the encapsulated thymine base and the mismatched thymine remaining inside the helix. The study highlights the uniqueness of this cyclobisintercalation binding mode and its importance for recognition of DNA lesion sites by small molecules.
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- Muriel Jourdan
- CNRS UMR5250, ICMG FR2607, Département de Chimie Moléculaire, Université Joseph Fourier, 570 rue de la Chimie, 38041 Grenoble Cedex 9, France.
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Galisteo J, Navarro P, Campayo L, Yunta MJR, Gómez-Contreras F, Villa-Pulgarin JA, Sierra BG, Mollinedo F, Gonzalez J, Garcia-España E. Synthesis and cytotoxic activity of a new potential DNA bisintercalator: 1,4-Bis{3-[N-(4-chlorobenzo[g]phthalazin-1-yl)aminopropyl]}piperazine. Bioorg Med Chem 2010; 18:5301-9. [PMID: 20538470 DOI: 10.1016/j.bmc.2010.05.053] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/05/2010] [Revised: 05/14/2010] [Accepted: 05/18/2010] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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The synthesis of new 1,4-bisalkylamino (2-4) and 1-alkylamino-4-chloro (5-6) substituted benzo[g]phthalazines is reported. Compounds 2-4 and 6 were prepared both in the free and heteroaromatic ring protonated forms. Bifunctional 6 contains the 1,4-bisaminopropylpiperazine chain as a linker between the two heteroaromatic units, whereas 5 is its monofunctional analogue. The in vitro antitumour activity of the synthesized compounds has been tested against human colon, breast and lung carcinoma cells, and also against human glioblastoma cells. Results obtained show that all of them are active in all cases, but bifunctional 6.2HCl is remarkably effective against the four cell lines tested, exhibiting IC50 values in the range of 10(-7) M, similar to those found for doxorubicin. The bifunctional structure of 6.2HCl enhances activity with respect to the monofunctional related compounds 5 and 7, leading to the highest activity among all the compounds tested. Molecular modelling of 6 suggests that those results could be indicative of DNA bisintercalation, which should be specially favoured in the diprotonated form 6.2HCl, a compound suitable for being studied more in depth in further biological tests. Measure of the DNA thermal melting curves show that the linear rise in Tm for bifunctional 6.2HCl is nearly twice than that one obtained for monofunctional 5, and supports the DNA-binding hypothesis.
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- Juan Galisteo
- Instituto de Química Médica, Centro de Química Orgánica Manuel Lora-Tamayo, CSIC, c/Juan de la Cierva 3, E-28006 Madrid, Spain
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Chu Y, Hoffman DW, Iverson BL. A pseudocatenane structure formed between DNA and A cyclic bisintercalator. J Am Chem Soc 2009; 131:3499-508. [PMID: 19236098 PMCID: PMC2733282 DOI: 10.1021/ja805676w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Targeting double-stranded DNA with small molecules remains an active area of basic research. Herein is described a cyclic DNA bisintercalator that is based on two naphthalene diimide (NDI) intercalating units tethered by one linking element specific for binding in the minor groove and the other linking element specific for binding in the major groove. DNase I footprinting revealed a strong preference for binding the sequence 5'-GGTACC-3'. NMR structural studies of the complex with d(CGGTACCG)(2) verified a pseudocatenane structure in which the NDI units reside four base pairs apart, with one linker segment located in the minor groove and the other in the major groove consistent with the linker designs. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first structurally well-characterized pseudocatenane complex between a sequence specific cyclic bisintercalator and intact DNA.
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- Yongjun Chu
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 78712, USA
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Blaney JM, Dixon JS. Distance Geometry in Molecular Modeling. REVIEWS IN COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY 2007. [DOI: 10.1002/9780470125823.ch6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Dynamics of guest binding to supramolecular systems: techniques and selected examples. ADVANCES IN PHYSICAL ORGANIC CHEMISTRY 2007. [DOI: 10.1016/s0065-3160(07)42004-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Evstigneev M, Evstigneev V, Davies D. 1H NMR determination of the self-association of an acridine homodimer and its complexation with ethidium bromide in aqueous solution. J Mol Struct 2006. [DOI: 10.1016/j.molstruc.2005.08.033] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Tumir LM, Piantanida I, Juranović I, Meić Z, Tomić S, Zinić M. Recognition of homo-polynucleotides containing adenine by a phenanthridinium bis-uracil conjugate in aqueous media. Chem Commun (Camb) 2005:2561-3. [PMID: 15900326 DOI: 10.1039/b500617a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Among novel bis-nucleobase-phenanthridinium conjugates bis-uracil analogue stabilized significantly more effective poly-dA-poly-dT and poly-AH(+)-poly-AH(+) than adenine analogue and reference compound . For the alternating poly-dAdT-poly-dAdT however, the binding preference is lost, pointing to the importance of specific interactions of uracils of with homopolynucleotides containing consecutive adenines.
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- Lidija-Marija Tumir
- Laboratory of Supramolecular and Nucleoside Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Ruder Bosković Institute, HR 10002 Zagreb, P.O.B. 180, Croatia
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Interactions of acyclic and cyclic bis-phenanthridinium derivatives with ss- and ds-polynucleotides. Tetrahedron 2004. [DOI: 10.1016/j.tet.2004.05.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Guelev V, Lee J, Ward J, Sorey S, Hoffman DW, Iverson BL. Peptide bis-intercalator binds DNA via threading mode with sequence specific contacts in the major groove. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2001; 8:415-25. [PMID: 11358689 DOI: 10.1016/s1074-5521(01)00013-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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BACKGROUND We previously described a general class of DNA polyintercalators in which 1,4,5,8-naphthalenetetracarboxylic diimide (NDI) intercalating units are connected via peptide linkers, resulting in the first known tetrakis- and octakis-intercalators. We showed further that changes in the composition of the peptide tether result in novel DNA binding site specificities. We now examine in detail the DNA binding mode and sequence specific recognition of Compound 1, an NDI bis-intercalator containing the peptide linker gly-gly-gly-lys. RESULTS 1H-NMR structural studies of Compound 1 bound to d(CGGTACCG)(2) confirmed a threading mode of intercalation, with four base pairs between the diimide units. The NMR data, combined with DNAse I footprinting of several analogs, suggest that specificity depends on a combination of steric and electrostatic contacts by the peptide linker in the floor of the major groove. CONCLUSIONS In view of the modular nature and facile synthesis of our NDI-based polyintercalators, such structural knowledge can be used to improve or alter the specificity of the compounds and design longer polyintercalators that recognize correspondingly longer DNA sequences with alternating access to both DNA grooves.
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- V Guelev
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Texas at Austin, 78722, USA
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Piantanida I, Palm BS, Cudic P, Zinic M, Schneider HJ. Phenanthridinium cyclobisintercalands. Fluorescence sensing of AMP and selective binding to single-stranded nucleic acids. Tetrahedron Lett 2001. [DOI: 10.1016/s0040-4039(01)01386-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Takenaka S, Takagi M. Threading Intercalators as a New DNA Structural Probe. BULLETIN OF THE CHEMICAL SOCIETY OF JAPAN 1999. [DOI: 10.1246/bcsj.72.327] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Kapur A, Beck JL, Sheil MM. Observation of daunomycin and nogalamycin complexes with duplex DNA using electrospray ionisation mass spectrometry. RAPID COMMUNICATIONS IN MASS SPECTROMETRY : RCM 1999; 13:2489-2497. [PMID: 10589098 DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0231(19991230)13:24<2489::aid-rcm816>3.0.co;2-f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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The noncovalent binding of the antitumour drugs daunomycin and nogalamycin to duplex DNA has been studied using electrospray ionisation mass spectrometry (ESI-MS). The conditions for the preparation of drug/duplex DNA complexes and for their detection by ESI-MS have been optimised. Ions corresponding to these complexes were most abundant relative to free DNA when prepared in the pH range 8-9, and using gentle ESI interface conditions. Self-complementary oligonucleotides, 5'-d(GGCTAGCC)-3' or 5'-d(CGGCGCCG)-3', annealed in the presence of a 5-fold molar excess of either nogalamycin or daunomycin gave ESI mass spectra in which the most intense ions corresponded to three molecules of drug bound to duplex DNA, with some evidence for four drug molecules bound. For binding to 5'-d(TGAGCTAGCTCA)(2)-3', complexes containing up to four nogalamycin and six daunomycin molecules were observed. These data are consistent with the neighbour exclusion principle whereby intercalation occurs between every other base pair such that up to four bound drugs would be expected for the 8 mers and up to six for the 12 mer. Competition experiments involving a single drug in an equimolar mixture of two oligonucleotides (5'-d(TGAGCTAGCTCA)(2)-3' with either 5'-d(CGGCGCCG)(2)-3' or 5'-d(GGCTAGCC)(2)-3') showed ions arising from complexes of drug/5'-d(CGGCGCCG)(2)-3' were more intense than complexes of drug/5'-d(GGCTAGCC)(2)-3', relative to those from the 12 mer in each mixture. While this suggests ESI-MS has the potential to detect differences in sequence selectivity, more detailed experiments involving a comparison of the relative ionisation efficiency of different oligonucleotides and a wider range of intercalators are required to establish this definitively. ESI mass spectra from experiments in which both drugs were reacted with the same oligonucleotide were more complex, such that a clear preference for one drug could not be established.
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- A Kapur
- Department of Chemistry, University of Wollongong, New South Wales 2522, Australia
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Li H, Czuchajowski L, Trumble WR. Compounds based onmeso-tri(4-pyridyl)-p-acrylamidophenylporphyrin able to interact with DNA. J Heterocycl Chem 1997. [DOI: 10.1002/jhet.5570340345] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Spellmeyer DC, Wong AK, Bower MJ, Blaney JM. Conformational analysis using distance geometry methods. J Mol Graph Model 1997; 15:18-36. [PMID: 9346820 DOI: 10.1016/s1093-3263(97)00014-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Distance geometry methods have been used extensively to build models of molecules of various sizes, including small molecules, peptides, and proteins. These methods are often overlooked as tools for conformational analysis, even though they often perform as well as other conformational sampling methods. We have implemented two new distance geometry approaches in the DGEOM95 package. In the first new method, the traditional embedding algorithm is replaced with a procedure that generates random 4D coordinates for each atom, followed by refinement of these coordinates into 3D using the distance geometry error function. The conformational sampling produced by this method is comparable to that obtained with partial metrization, and superior to that obtained with the original embedding procedure. In the second method, a molecular dynamics step is included in the refinement stage. Although this method can be applied to any embedding algorithm, substantial improvements in sampling are seen primarily with the original embedding algorithm.
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Carpenter ML, Lowe G, Cook PR. The structure of 4-way DNA junctions: specific binding of bis-intercalators with rigid linkers. Nucleic Acids Res 1996; 24:1594-601. [PMID: 8649974 PMCID: PMC145853 DOI: 10.1093/nar/24.9.1594] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023] Open
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During replication and recombination, two DNA duplexes lie side by side. We have developed reagents that might be used to probe structure during these critical processes; they contain two intercalating groups connected by a rigid linker that forces those groups to point in opposite directions. If their stereochemistry proves appropriate, such structure-specific agents should intercalate specifically into adjacent duplexes in the Y- and X-shaped structures (i.e. 3- and 4-way junctions, now known as 3H and 4H junctions) found at replication and recombination sites. We prepared DNA structures in which four duplexes were arranged in all possible combinations around 2- and 4-way junctions and then probed the accessibility to DNase I of all their phosphodiester bonds. In the absence of any bis-intercalators, 7-9 nucleotides (nt) in each of the strands in 4-way junctions were protected from attack; protected regions were significantly offset to the 3' side of the junction in continuous strands, but only slightly offset, if at all, in exchanging strands. All the intercalators decreased accessibility throughout the structure, but none did so at specific points in the two adjacent arms of 4-way junctions. However, one bis-intercalator--but not its sister with a shorter linker--strikingly increased access to a particular CpT bond that lay 9 nt away from the centre of some 4-way junctions without reducing access to neighbouring bonds. Binding was both sequence and structure specific, and depended on complementary stereochemistry between bis-intercalator and junction.
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- M L Carpenter
- The Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford, UK
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Switzer C, Prakash TP, Ahn Y. Synthesis and characterization of an oligonucleotide containing the bifurcated nucleobase ω-adenylpropyl uracil. Bioorg Med Chem Lett 1996. [DOI: 10.1016/0960-894x(96)00112-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Takenaka S, Nishira S, Tahara K, Kondo H, Takagi M. Synthesis and characterization of novel tris-intercalators having potentially two different DNA binding modes. Supramol Chem 1993. [DOI: 10.1080/10610279308027505] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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Schneider HJ, Blatter T. Interactions Between Acyclic and Cyclic Peralkylammonium Compounds and DNA. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1992. [DOI: 10.1002/anie.199212071] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Schneider HJ, Blatter T. Wechselwirkungen zwischen acyclischen und cyclischen Peralkylammoniumverbindungen und DNA. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 1992. [DOI: 10.1002/ange.19921040925] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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The 9-aminoacridine-DNA binding curve is analyzed in two ways: with polyelectrolyte effects neglected and with polyelectrolyte effects included. It is found that the analysis which includes polyelectrolyte effects is consistent with the violation of neighbor exclusion displayed by diacridine complexes as observed by Atwell et al. and by Zimmerman and coworkers. However the analysis which neglects polyelectrolyte effects is inconsistent with the diacridine results. This comparison supports the necessity of including polyelectrolyte effects in the analysis of drug-DNA binding curves.
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- R A Friedman
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University, New York, NY 10032
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