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Origen del dicroísmo circular inducido por el ADN en un aglutinador de ranura menor
Nanna Holmgaard List1, Jérémie Knoops2, Jenifer Rubio-Magnieto2
1School of Biotechnology, Division of Theoretical Chemistry & Biology, KTH Royal Institute of Technology , Roslagstullsbacken 15, 114 21 Stockholm, Sweden.
Journal of the American Chemical Society
|October 3, 2017
Resumen
El dicroísmo circular inducido (ICD) en los ligandos de unión al ADN como el DAPI es complejo. Nuestro estudio revela que el ADN
Área de la Ciencia:
- Biofísica molecular
- Química supramolecular
- Espectroscopia
Sus antecedentes:
- El dicroísmo circular inducido (ICD) es sensible a los modos de unión ligando-ADN.
- Los mecanismos precisos que contribuyen a las señales de ICD siguen siendo incompletamente entendidos.
- Las teorías estándar pueden no capturar completamente las interacciones ligando-ADN.
Objetivo del estudio:
- Para aclarar los mecanismos clave que rigen el ICD de 4',6-diamidino-2-fenilindole (DAPI) ligado a ranuras menores al ADN.
- Determinar la importancia relativa de los diferentes factores que contribuyen a la señal del ICD del DAPI.
- Evaluar la validez de los marcos teóricos existentes para las interacciones DAPI-ADN.
Principales métodos:
- Simulaciones de dinámica molecular para modelar la dinámica del complejo DAPI-ADN.
- Cálculos de respuesta de dicroísmo circular (CD) para predecir las características espectrales.
- Espectroscopia experimental de CD en una secuencia de ADN rica en AT con DAPI.
Principales resultados:
- El ICD de DAPI unido a una secuencia AT surge de múltiples factores.
- Las contribuciones significativas incluyen la influencia quiral del ADN y las interacciones de transferencia de carga.
- Los acoplamientos excitónicos resonantes y no resonantes entre las moléculas de DAPI y las nucleobases de ADN también juegan un papel.
Conclusiones:
- La señal ICD de los complejos DAPI-ADN es el resultado de una compleja interacción de mecanismos.
- La transferencia de carga y la huella quiral del ADN son contribuyentes críticos al DAPI ICD.
- La teoría estándar del excitón de Frenkel es insuficiente para explicar las interacciones DAPI-ADN observadas.
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