A Theoretical Study of the Sequence Specificity in Binding of Lexitropsins to B-DNA
- 1 April 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics
- Vol. 4 (5) , 833-843
- https://doi.org/10.1080/07391102.1987.10507681
Abstract
A theoretical study is presented on the binding to B-DNA of a series of lexitropsins, these ligands being netropsin derivatives in which one or both of the pyrrole rings have been replaced by imidazoles. The best complexes have been located by energy minimisation taking into account nucleic acid flexibility, ligand flexibility, explicit, mobile counterions and solvent dielectric effects. Calculations have been performed for two homopolymeric DNA receptor sequences, AT and GC. All the compounds studied exhibit an overall binding preference for the AT base sequence, which only decreases in the imidazole derivatives. These results emphasize the decisive role of the molecular electrostatic potential of the nucleic acid in determining the sequence selectivity of these ligands, as opposed to the postulated role of adenine C2 - pyrrole β hydrogen contacts.This publication has 20 references indexed in Scilit:
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