Significance of ligand tails for interaction with the minor groove of B-DNA.

Biophys J

Institute of General, Inorganic, and Theoretical Chemistry, University of Innsbruck, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria.

Published: September 2001

Minor groove binding ligands are of great interest due to their extraordinary importance as transcription controlling drugs. We performed three molecular dynamics simulations of the unbound d(CGCGAATTCGCG)(2) dodecamer and its complexes with Hoechst33258 and Netropsin. The structural behavior of the piperazine tail of Hoechst33258, which has already been shown to be a contributor in sequence-specific recognition, was analyzed. The simulations also reveal that the tails of the ligands are able to influence the width of the minor groove. The groove width is even sensitive for conformational transitions of these tails, indicating a high adaptability of the minor groove. Furthermore, the ligands also exert an influence on the B(I)/B(II) backbone conformational substate behavior. All together these results are important for the understanding of the binding process of sequence-specific ligands.

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