Molecular structural effects involved in the interaction of quinolinemethanolamines with DNA. Implications for antimalarial action.
Molecular structural effects involved in the interaction of quinolinemethanolamines with DNA. Implications for antimalarial action.
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喹啉甲醇胺与 DNA 相互作用中涉及的分子结构效应。
DOI:
10.1021/jm00219a002
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发表时间:
1977
影响因子:
7.3
通讯作者:
W. Wilson
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作者:
M. Davidson;B. G. Griggs;D. Boykin;W. Wilson
The interaction of mefloquine (4), two of its analogues, 5 and 6, quinacrine (2), chloroquine (1), and quinine (3) with DNA has been investigated using difference spectroscopy, spectral shifts in the presence of DNA, viscometric titrations with sonicated calf thymus DNA and Col Ei plasmid superhelical DNA, and Tm measurements. The results from these experimentsindicate that quinolines with the methanolamine side chain atposition 4 cannot intercalate with DNA if they have another bulky substituent (such as trifluoromethyl) at position 2. Mefloquine (4), which has been found to be clinically effectiveagainst chloroquine-resistant Plasmodium falciparum, completelyclears parasitemia in a single dose. This drug contains trifluoromethyl substituentsat positions 2 and 8 of the quinoline nucleus and binds to DNA only weaklyby electrostatic attraction at low ionic strength. Similar compounds such as 5 and quinine (3) without bulky substituentsat position 2 can intercalate with DNA, but this interaction is not correlated in any apparent manner with antimalarial activity. Even intercalating quinolinemethanolamines bind weakly to DNA relative to compounds such as quinacrine (2), ethidium, and daunorubicin which are thought to exert their medicinal effects through in vivo intercalationwith DNA. These results, taken collectively, strongly suggest that interaction with DNA is not involved in the antimalarial action of the quinolinemethanolamines analyzed in these experiments.Deoxyribonucleic acid has been implicated as the in vivo receptor for antineoplastic drugs such as the anthracy-clines, 1" 3 actinomycin, 4, 5and coralyne, 6, 7 antitrypanosomal drugs such as the phenanthridines, 8, 9 and antimalarial drugs of quite varied structure. 10" 13 A considerable amount of the early work on the binding of antimalarials to DNA was done by Hahn andco-workers. 12 They presented evidence that compounds such as chloroquine (1), quinacrine (2), and quinine (3) can intercalate with DNA by the classical model of German11 and suggested that intercalation was a part of their mechanism of antimalarial action. The evidence for this model, its simplicity, and the lack of a definite bioreceptor for alternative models14, 15 have helped it gain widespread acceptance. Synthetic chemists have used the model to design new antimalarial drugs, 16 and the assumption has been made that other arylmethanolamines and related compounds of similar structure involve DNA binding in their mechanism of