Glycyrrhizin(GL), is a triterpenoid saponin found in glychyrrhiza glabra (liquorice). This compound is a frequently used and very effective drug for the treatment of various malignancies. This study was designed to examine the interactions of glycyrrhizin with calf thymus DNA in aqueous solution at physiological conditions. FTIR spectroscopic method was used to determine the ligand binding mode...

In this study, we further examined the sequence selectivity of camptothecin in mammalian topoisomerase I cDNA from human and Chinese hamster. In the absence of camptothecin, almost all the bases at the 3'-terminus of cleavage sites are T for calf thymus and wheat germ topoisomerase I. In addition, wheat germ topoisomerase I exhibits preference for C (or not T) at -3 and for T at -2 position. As...

Modulation of DNA adduct formation by pre-existing adducts was examined in synthetic oligonucleotides and genomic DNA (calf thymus); genotoxins studied were N-acetoxy-acetylaminofluorene (N-AcO-AAF), aminofluorene (AF), aflatoxin B1-8,9-epoxide (AFB1-8,9-epoxide), and dimethylsulfate (DMS). Oligodeoxynucleotides containing either guanine-C8-AAF (Gua-C8-AAF) or Gua-C8-AF adducts and a neighborin...

The electrochemical behavior of gatifloxacin (GTFX) and its interaction with natural calf thymus DNA (ctDNA) is investigated by differential pulse voltammetry (DPV) on a carbon paraffined electrode. According to the suggested electrochemical equation, a binding constant of 1.7058 x 10(5) (mol L(-1))(-1) and binding sizes s = 3.09 (base pairs) of GTFX with ctDNA are obtained by nonlinear fit ana...

Cobalt(II)  complexes of isonicotinoyl hydrazones of two series of ligands have been synthesized and characterized on the basis of elemental analyses, molar conductance, magnetic moment, mass, IR, UV spectral data. Electrochemical behavior of ligands and complexes has been investigated by using cyclic voltammetry. Cyclic voltammetric studies reveal that the oxidation/reduct...

Antibodies to chromatographically purified rat thymus Fl histone subfractions were induced in rabbits by immunization with histone-RNA complexes. The immunological relatedness between each of the rat thymus Fl subfractions and subfractions derived chromatographically from calf thymus and rat liver Fl was determined by quantitative microcomplement fixation. The various rat thymus peaks elicited ...

Spectroscopic, viscometric, and molecular docking analysis of binding of cationic bis-porphyrins linked with p- or m-xylylenediamine (H(2)pXy and H(2)mXy) and their zinc(II) complexes (ZnpXy and ZnmXy) to duplex DNA are described. H(2)pXy and H(2)mXy bound to calf thymus DNA (CTDNA) stronger than unichromophoric H(2)TMPyP, and showed exciton-type induced circular dichroism spectra of their Sore...