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ArticleInternational journal of molecular sciences2026

A Computational Challenge of Guanine Quadruplex Involvement in Anticancer Antibiotics.

Snezhana M Bakalova, Nikoleta Kircheva, Silvia Angelova, Jose Kaneti

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Article in International journal of molecular sciences, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Snezhana M BakalovaInstitute of Organic Chemistry with Centre of Phytochemistry, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria.ORCID 0000-0002-9453-7284
Nikoleta KirchevaInstitute of Optical Materials and Technologies "Acad J. Malinowski", Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria.ORCID 0000-0002-6645-8319
Silvia AngelovaInstitute of Optical Materials and Technologies "Acad J. Malinowski", Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria.ORCID 0000-0003-4717-8028
Jose KanetiInstitute of Organic Chemistry with Centre of Phytochemistry, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 1113 Sofia, Bulgaria.ORCID 0000-0001-9142-2281

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Bullgarian National Sciencce Fund KP-06-N59/1 of 15 November 2021
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Small bioactive molecules show significant propensity to form noncovalent addition complexes with guanine quadruplexes, G4. The stabilization energies of these complexes have been computed precisely at the sufficiently high 6-31G** basis set level of density functional quantum chemical theory, DFT. A decisive factor in present model computations is the adopted size of G4 models, whether these consist simply of stacked quanine quartets, or also involve (deoxy)ribose-phosphate fragments of proper nucleic acids. The challenge is in the preservation of physico-chemical accuracy of DFT computations with increasing sizes of models, involving upwards of 120 atoms for the simplest two-layer G4, plus at least 60 pentose-phosphate linker atoms per each pair of guanine quartets. Bioactive ligand sizes add to the requirements for further rigorous analyses of the roles of G4 complexes in biological processes, which thus remain necessarily open-ended.

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Antibiotics, AntineoplasticG-QuadruplexesGuanineModels, MolecularQuantum TheoryAntibiotics, AntineoplasticGuanineantibioticsguanine quadruplexes G4ONIOM computingstacking

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