The influence of the exocyclic amino group characteristic of GC base pairs on molecular recognition of specific nucleotide sequences in DNA by Berenil and DAPI
✍ Scribed by Michael J. Waring; Christian Bailly
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 233 KB
- Volume
- 10
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0952-3499
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✦ Synopsis
The expedient of preparing homologous DNA samples substituted with inosine for guanosine residues, 2,6-diaminopurine (DAP) for adenine residues, or both, has been used to investigate the role of the purine 2-amino group in determining the preferred binding sites for the drugs berenil [1,3-bis(4-phenylamidinium) triazene] and DAPI (4Ј,6-diamidino-2-phenyl indole) on DNA. The selectivity of these two minor groove binders for AT-rich sequences is seen to be radically altered in the substituted DNA molecules. Neither berenil nor DAPI bind to DAP-substituted DNA where all purine residues bear a 2-amino group. By contrast, they bind to AT-rich, IC-rich and even mixed sequences of the inosine DNA where all purine residues lack the 2-amino group. With the inosine and DAP double substituted DNA, both berenil and DAPI bind preferentially to IC-rich clusters instead of their canonical tracts endowed with an extra 2-amino group through substitution with DAP. These results establish that the location of the purine 2-amino group represents a critical determinant for recognition of DNA nucleotide sequences by the two drugs.