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Tipo: Artigo
Título: DNA interaction with Actinomycin D: mechanical measurements reveal the details of the binding data
Autor(es): Cesconetto, E. C.
A. Junior, F. S.
Crisafuli, F. A. P.
Mesquita, O. N.
Ramos, E. B.
Rocha, M. S.
Abstract: We have studied the interaction between the anticancer drug Actinomycin D (ActD) and the DNA molecule by performing single molecule stretching experiments and atomic force microscopy (AFM) imaging. From the stretching experiments, we determine how the mechanical properties of the DNA–ActD complexes vary as a function of drug concentration, for a fixed DNA concentration. We have found that the persistence lengths of the complexes formed behave non-monotonically: at low concentrations of ActD they are more flexible than the bare DNA molecule and become stiffer at higher concentrations. On the other hand, the contour length increases monotonically as a function of ActD concentration. Using a two-sites quenched disorder statistical model recently developed by us, we were able to extract chemical parameters such as the intrinsic binding constant and the degree of cooperativity from these pure mechanical measurements, thus performing a robust characterization of the interaction. The AFM images, otherwise, were used to measure the bending angle size distribution that ActD introduces on the double-helix structure and the average number of bendings per DNA molecule as a function of drug concentration, two quantities that cannot be determined from the stretching experiments.
Palavras-chave: DNA interaction
Actinomycin D
Editor: Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics
Tipo de Acesso: the Owner Societies
URI: https://doi.org/10.1039/C3CP50898F
http://www.locus.ufv.br/handle/123456789/18490
Data do documento: 7-Mai-2013
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