in this study, we present the work on the physicochemical interaction between the anti-cancer alkaloidberberine (brb) and dna with the purpose of designing drugs that interact more with dna. molecularmodeling on the complex formed between berberine and dna presented that this complex was undeniablyfully able of participating in the formation of a stable intercalation site. besides, the molecula...

the dna molecule has been known to be the cellular target for many cytotoxic anticancer agents for several decades. understanding how drug molecules interact with dna has become an active research area in the interface between chemistry, molecular biology and medicine. dna extraction has been suggested as a main step affecting molecular dna technology such as pcr and pcr-based methods. therefor...

Interactions of cationic tetrakis (N,N´,N´´,N´´´-tetramethyltetra-3,4-pyridinoporphyrazinatocobalt(II) (Co(tmtppa)) with synthetic polynucleotides, poly(A-T), poly(G-C) and calf thymus DNA have been characterized in 5 mM phosphate buffer, pH 7.2, by optical absorption and fluorescence spectroscopy. The appearance of hypochromicity effect and the red shift in UV-Vis spectrum of porphyrazine was ...