Published August 15, 1988 | Version v1
Journal article

31P NMR study of daunorubicin-d(CGTACG) complex in solution

  • 1. Milan Univ. (Italy). Istituto di Biochmica e Chimica
  • 2. Farmitalia Carlo Erba, Milano (Italy). Ricerca e Sviluppo
  • 3. CNR, Bologna (Italy). Istituto dei Composti del Carbonio contenenti eteroatomi e loro applicazioni

Description

The interaction of daunorubicin with the self-complementary DNA fragment d(CGTACG) was studied by /sup 31/P NMR spectroscopy. The individual phosphates have been assigned for the nucleotide and the complex and signals from bound and free species in slow exchange at 190C were detected. In solution, the hexanucleotide binds two molecules of daunorubicin, which intercalate in the d(CG) sequence at both ends of the helix. Evidence for local deformations of the backbone at the sites of C/sub 5/pG/sub 6/, C/sub 1/pG/sub 2/and G/sub 2/pT/sub 3/ phosphates is given. The binding constants for the stepwise equilibrium and the rate of dissociation of theh intercalculated duplex were also determined

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Subtitle (English)
Evidence of the intercalation sites

Publishing Information

Journal Title
FEBS Letters
Journal Volume
236
Journal Issue
1
Series
FEBS Lett.
Journal Page Range
62-70
ISSN
0014-5793
CODEN
FEBLA

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Notes
13 refs.; 4 figs.