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Application of Stopped-flow Kinetics Methods to Investigate the Mechanism of Action of a DNA Repair Protein
Published on: March 31, 2010
[Formation kinetics of the AT-specific complex: DNA-distamycin A]
Abstract:
The kinetics of DNA-distamycin A complex formation and dissociation was studied by means of the stop-flow method. It has been found that the complex formation has at least five steps, the formation of AT-specific complex is limited by the dissociation of less specific intermediate complexes, then follows the statistical rearrangement of the ligand molecules and "fixation" of the specific complex with the longest lifetime and the biggest number of the additional H-bounds with the matrix. The energy of a single specific H-bond between the ligand molecule and AT-pair is equal to--1.05 kcal/mol.
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