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Theoretical and Instrumental Studies of the Competitive Interaction Between Aromatic α-Aminobisphosphonates with DNA
M B Gholivand1, H Peyman2, Kh Gholivand3
1Faculty of Chemistry, Sensor and Biosensor Research Center (SBRC) and Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Research Center (NNRC), Razi University, Kermanshah, Iran.
Abstract:
Fluorescence spectroscopy, UV-visible absorption spectroscopy, circular dichroism (CD) spectroscopy, viscometry, cyclic voltammetry (CV), and differential pulse voltammetry (DPV) were applied to investigate the competitive interaction of DNA with two aromatic α-aminobisphosphonates and neutral red dye (NR, intercalator) and Hoechst (Ho, groove binder) as spectroscopic probes, in a Tris-hydrogen chloride buffer solution (pH 7.4). The principal component analysis (PCA) was applied to determine the number of chemical components presented in complexation equilibrium of DNA with the aromatic α-aminobisphosphonates (B1 and B2). The spectroscopic and voltammetric studies showed that the groove binding mode of interaction is predominant in the solution containing DNA and α-aminobisphosphonates. Furthermore, the results indicated that α-aminobisphosphonate with the lengthy N-alkyl chains had a stronger interaction. The PCA and theoretical quantum mechanical and molecular mechanic methods were also utilized to determine the structure of DNA with the two α-aminobisphosphonates (B1 and B2).
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