Publication Date:
1996-06-28
Description:
Nucleic acid bulges have been implicated in a number of biological processes and are specific cleavage targets for the enediyne antitumor antibiotic neocarzinostatin chromophore in a base-catalyzed, radical-mediated reaction. The solution structure of the complex between an analog of the bulge-specific cleaving species and an oligodeoxynucleotide containing a two-base bulge was elucidated by nuclear magnetic resonance. An unusual binding mode involves major groove recognition by the drug carbohydrate unit and tight fitting of the wedge-shaped drug in the triangular prism pocket formed by the two looped-out bulge bases and the neighboring base pairs. The two drug rings mimic helical DNA bases, complementing the bent DNA structure. The putative abstracting drug radical is 2.2 +/- 0.1 angstroms from the pro-S H5' of the target bulge nucleotide. This structure clarifies the mechanism of bulge recognition and cleavage by a drug and provides insight into the design of bulge-specific nucleic acid binding molecules.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Stassinopoulos, A -- Ji, J -- Gao, X -- Goldberg, I H -- CA44257/CA/NCI NIH HHS/ -- GM53793/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1996 Jun 28;272(5270):1943-6.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8658168" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Base Composition
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Base Sequence
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DNA/chemistry/*metabolism
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Enediynes
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Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
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Models, Molecular
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Molecular Sequence Data
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*Nucleic Acid Conformation
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Oligodeoxyribonucleotides/chemistry/*metabolism
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Zinostatin/analogs & derivatives/chemistry/metabolism
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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