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Published on: April 3, 2014
Phosphodiester modification by zinc metalated adenine polymer with carboxyl pendants
Yogita Gupta1, G N Mathur, Masood Parvez
1Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur 208016, India.
Abstract:
This report describes a novel carboxyl pendant containing adenylated polymeric template, its metalation with Zn (II), and manifestation of catalytic activity for the hydrolysis of model phosphodiester, bis(p-nitrophenyl) phosphate (bNPP), and plasmid cleavage. Observation of a bell-shaped pH-K(obs) profile suggested influence of pH variation over hydrolysis rate. This metalated polymer also afforded facile relaxation of pBR322 supercoiled DNA, with an interesting reusability feature intricately associated with heterogeneous catalysis.
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