DNA Minor Groove Induced Dimerization of Heterocyclic Cations: Compound Structure, Binding Affinity, and Specificity for a TTAA Site

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 402, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 847-864

  Munde, Manoj ^a   Kumar, Arvind ^a   Nhili, Raja ^b   Depauw, Sabine ^b   David Cordonnier, Marie Hélène ^b   Ismail, Mohamed A ^a   Stephens, Chad E ^a   Farahat, Abdelbasset A ^a   Batista Parra, Adalgisa ^a   Boykin, David W ^a   Wilson, W David ^a  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Institut de Recherche sur le Cancer de Lille   (France)

Author keywords

Biosensor SPR; Cooperative dimer; DNA; Sequence recognition; TTAA

Indexed keywords

BENZENE DERIVATIVE; BENZIMIDAZOLE; CATION; DIAMIDINE DERIVATIVE; DIMER; FURAN; HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUND; BENZIMIDAZOLE DERIVATIVE; DNA; FURAN DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; BIOSENSOR; DIMERIZATION; DNA FOOTPRINTING; DNA STRUCTURE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOME; HYDROGEN BOND; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; GENETIC PROCEDURES; METABOLISM;

BENZIMIDAZOLES; BINDING SITES; BIOSENSING TECHNIQUES; CATIONS; DIMERIZATION; DNA; DNA FOOTPRINTING; FURANS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 77957236488     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2010.08.018     Document Type: Article

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