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ReviewBeilstein journal of organic chemistry2018

Polarization spectroscopy methods in the determination of interactions of small molecules with nucleic acids - tutorial.

Tamara Šmidlehner, Ivo Piantanida, Gennaro Pescitelli

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Review in Beilstein journal of organic chemistry, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 61 papers.

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61citing papers in PubMed
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61 citing papers in PubMed, 135 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Tamara ŠmidlehnerDivision of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Ruđer Bošković Institute; P. O. Box 180, 10002 Zagreb, Croatia.
Ivo PiantanidaDivision of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Ruđer Bošković Institute; P. O. Box 180, 10002 Zagreb, Croatia.
Gennaro PescitelliDepartment of Chemistry, University of Pisa, via Moruzzi 13, Pisa, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-0869-5076
Ruđer Bošković Institute · HRUniversity of Pisa · IT

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The structural characterization of non-covalent complexes between nucleic acids and small molecules (ligands) is of a paramount significance to bioorganic research. Highly informative methods about nucleic acid/ligand complexes such as single crystal X-ray diffraction or NMR spectroscopy cannot be performed under biologically compatible conditions and are extensively time consuming. Therefore, in search for faster methods which can be applied to conditions that are at least similar to the naturally occurring ones, a set of polarization spectroscopy methods has shown highly promising results. Electronic circular dichroism (ECD) is the most commonly used method for the characterization of the helical structure of DNA and RNA and their complexes with ligands. Less common but complementary to ECD, is flow-oriented linear dichroism (LD). Other methods such as vibrational CD (VCD) and emission-based methods (FDCD, CPL), can also be used for suitable samples. Despite the popularity of polarization spectroscopy in biophysics, aside several highly focused reviews on the application of these methods to DNA/RNA research, there is no systematic tutorial covering all mentioned methods as a tool for the characterization of adducts between nucleic acids and small ligands. This tutorial aims to help researchers entering the research field to organize experiments accurately and to interpret the obtained data reliably.

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circular dichroismemission-based dichroismgroove bindingintercalationlinear dichroismnon-covalent interactionsnucleic acids recognitionvibrational circular dichroism

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PMID29441133
PMCPMC5789433
OpenAlexW2781930396

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