ISSN:
0006-3525
Keywords:
Chemistry
;
Polymer and Materials Science
Source:
Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
Topics:
Chemistry and Pharmacology
Notes:
Spectrophotometric binding studies were undertaken on the interaction of neutral red with native and heat-denatured, sonicated, calf thymus DNA in a 0.2M ionic strength buffer containing Tris-sodium acetate-potassium chloride at 25°C. The pKA of neutral red was found to be 6.81. At pH 5 the binding of protonated neutral red was complicated even at low concentration ratios of dye to DNA. In the pH range 7.5-8.5 the tight binding process could be studied and it was found that both protonated and free base species of neutral red significantly bind with DNA having association constants (in terms of polynucleotide phosphate) of 5.99 × 103 M-1 and 0.136 × 103 M-1, respectively, for native DNA and 7.48 × 103 M-1 and 0.938 × 103 M-1, respectively, for denatured DNA. The pKA value of the neutral red-DNA complexes were 8.46 for native DNA and 7.72 for denatured DNA. These results are discussed in terms of possible binding mechanisms.
Additional Material:
10 Ill.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/bip.1975.360140411
