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ArticleAntioxidants (Basel, Switzerland)2019

Targeting G-quadruplexes with Organic Dyes: Chelerythrine-DNA Binding Elucidated by Combining Molecular Modeling and Optical Spectroscopy.

Alessio Terenzi, Hugo Gattuso, Angelo Spinello, Bernhard K Keppler, Christophe Chipot, François Dehez, Giampaolo Barone, Antonio Monari

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Article in Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland), 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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7 citing papers in PubMed, 21 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 4 institutions in 5 countries.

Alessio TerenziInstitute of Inorganic Chemistry, University of Vienna, Währingerstrasse 42, A-1090 Vienna, Austria. aterenzi@dipc.org.ORCID 0000-0001-9751-1373
Hugo GattusoUniversité de Lorraine and CNRS, LPCT UMR 7019, F54000 Nancy, France. hfbm.gattuso@gmail.com.ORCID 0000-0002-9047-0297
Angelo SpinelloCNR-IOM DEMOCRITOS c/o International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA), 34136 Trieste, Italy. aspinello@sissa.it.ORCID 0000-0002-8387-8956
Bernhard K KepplerInstitute of Inorganic Chemistry, University of Vienna, Währingerstrasse 42, A-1090 Vienna, Austria. bernhard.keppler@univie.ac.at.
Christophe ChipotUniversité de Lorraine and CNRS, LPCT UMR 7019, F54000 Nancy, France. Christophe.Chipot@univ-lorraine.fr.
François DehezUniversité de Lorraine and CNRS, LPCT UMR 7019, F54000 Nancy, France. francois.dehez@univ-lorraine.fr.
Giampaolo BaroneDipartimento di Scienze Biologiche, Chimiche e Farmaceutiche, Università di Palermo, Viale delle Scienze, 90128 Palermo, Italy. giampaolo.barone@unipa.it.ORCID 0000-0001-8773-2359
Antonio MonariUniversité de Lorraine and CNRS, LPCT UMR 7019, F54000 Nancy, France. antonio.monari@univ-lorraine.fr.ORCID 0000-0001-9464-1463
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique · FRUniversity of Vienna · ATScuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati · ITUniversity of Palermo · IT

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The DNA-binding of the natural benzophenanthridine alkaloid chelerythrine (CHE) has been assessed by combining molecular modeling and optical absorption spectroscopy. Specifically, both double-helical (B-DNA) and G-quadruplex sequences-representative of different topologies and possessing biological relevance, such as telomeric or regulatory sequences-have been considered. An original multiscale protocol, making use of molecular dynamics (MD) simulations and quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics (QM/MM) calculations, allowed us to compare the theoretical and experimental circular dichroism spectra of the different DNA topologies, readily providing atomic-level details of the CHE-DNA binding modes. The binding selectivity towards G-quadruplexes is confirmed by both experimental and theoretical determination of the binding free energies. Overall, our mixed computational and experimental approach is able to shed light on the interaction of small molecules with different DNA conformations. In particular, CHE may be seen as the building block of promising drug candidates specifically targeting G-quadruplexes for both antitumoral and antiviral purposes.

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all atom molecular dynamicsanticancer drugscircular dichroismguanine quadruplexes

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PMID31658666
PMCPMC6826623
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