J 1997

MONOFUNCTIONAL ADDUCTS OF PLATINUM(II) PRODUCE IN DNA A SEQUENCE-DEPENDENT LOCAL DENATURATION

BRABEC, Viktor, Vladimír BOUDNÝ a Zdeňka BALCAROVÁ

Základní údaje

Originální název

MONOFUNCTIONAL ADDUCTS OF PLATINUM(II) PRODUCE IN DNA A SEQUENCE-DEPENDENT LOCAL DENATURATION

Autoři

BRABEC, Viktor, Vladimír BOUDNÝ a Zdeňka BALCAROVÁ

Vydání

BIOCHEMISTRY, 1997, 0006-2960

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Článek v odborném periodiku

Obor

10600 1.6 Biological sciences

Stát vydavatele

Spojené státy

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Impakt faktor

Impact factor: 4.572

Organizační jednotka

Přírodovědecká fakulta

Klíčová slova anglicky

ANTITUMOR DRUG CIS-DIAMMINEDICHLOROPLATINUM(II); RNA-POLYMERASES; D(AG) SITE; COMPLEXES; BINDING; CONFORMATION; SPECIFICITY; SINGLE; D(GG)
Změněno: 5. 8. 2010 14:48, RNDr. Kamila Neplechová, Ph.D.

Anotace

V originále

The effects on the conformation of DNA produced by the monofunctional adducts of chloro(diethylenetriamine)platinum(II) chloride or cis-diamminemonoaquamonochloroplatinum(II) have been investigated by means of the single-strand-specific probe chloroacetaldehyde (CAA). The denatured sites to which CAA was bound and that were induced in DNA by the monofunctional adducts of the platinum complexes were characterized by means of three experimental approaches. These include measurement of the fluorescence of a plasmid fragment treated with CAA, analysis of oligonucleotides treated with CAA and cleaved by piperidine, and termination of duplex transcription on a fragment of plasmid DNA treated with CAA. The results indicate that the denaturational change preferentially occurs in the base pair containing the monoadducted deoxyriboguanosine in the trinucleotide sequence Py-deoxyriboguanosine-Py (Py is a pyrimidine deoxyribonucleoside). It was suggested that this conformational alteration facilitates in DNA the formation of minor bifunctional adducts of cis-diamminedichloroplatinum(II).