Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
1372788 Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters 2011 4 Pages PDF
Abstract

A combination of isothermal titration calorimetry (ITC), topoisomerase I DNA unwinding assays, and ethidium bromide displacement studies were employed to investigate the binding of a homologous series of naphthalene diimides (NDI) to DNA. Our results suggest that the nature of the substituent plays a significant role in both the preferred binding mode and relative binding affinity of the compounds of this study. Only intercalative-type binding (K = 15 ± 3 × 106 M−1) was observed for the NDI with the smallest substituent (trimethyl-ethylamino), while larger members of the series (diethylmethyl-, dipropylmethyl- and dibutylmethyl-ethylamino substituents) adopted an additional binding mode of higher affinity (K1 = 31 − 78 × 106 M−1).

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