Topologically constrained bifunctional intercalators: DNA intercalation by a macrocyclic bisacridine
Topologically constrained bifunctional intercalators: DNA intercalation by a macrocyclic bisacridine
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拓扑约束双功能嵌入剂:大环双吖啶嵌入 DNA
DOI:
10.1021/ja00199a047
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发表时间:
1989
影响因子:
15
通讯作者:
T. Fairley
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作者:
S. Zimmerman;C. Lamberson;M. Cory;T. Fairley
A topologically novel DNA bifunctional intercalator, 4, has been synthesized and its DNA binding compared with the binding of the monointercalator 9-aminoacridine (6) and spermine bisacridine (5), a known bisintercalator. Water-soluble macrocyclic bisacridine 4 was synthesized by reaction of 4-(bromomethyl)-9-chloroacridine with 7V, 7V'-bis (2-mercaptoethyl) succinamide and base. The resulting dichloride was converted to the corresponding bis (9-phenoxyacridine), which reacted with spermine tetrahydrochloride to form macrocyclic bisacridine 4. At a 1: 10 ratio of 4 to calf thymus DNA phosphate, a ATm of> 40 C was measured, which indicates a high binding affinity. Viscometric analysis of helix extension using sonicated calf thymus DNA gave slopes for compounds 4 and 5 that were much greater than that for 6. Metachromic shifts were observed in the absorption spectra of 4 upon addition of DNA. These metachromic shifts were similar to those shown by 5 and 6 under the same conditions. Additions of 4 to closed circular supercoiled plasmid DNA (1 6) removed and reversed the supercoiling as measured by the changes in the viscometric properties of the plasmid. Thesimilarities in binding data obtained for macrocycle 4 and the knownbisintercalator spermine bisacridine (5) indicate that the former also binds to DNA as a bifunctional intercalator.For more than a decade extensive effort has been directed toward the synthesis and study of DNA polyintercalators, primarily based on their potential as effective antitumor agents. 1 Additionally, these compounds can serve as experimental tools to probe DNA structure. Studies of more than 100 DNA bis-intercalators have been published, their structures differing in length, rigidity, and charge of the linking chain and by the intercalating chromophore itself. 2 34What is invariant in these bis-intercalators is their topology. These synthetic “receptors” for DNA have been exclusively of the nonmacrocyclic structure