The binding mechanism of triadimenol (NOL) to calf thymus DNA (ctDNA) in physiological buffer (pH 7.4) was investigated by multispectroscopic methods including UV-vis absorption, fluorescence, circular dichroism (CD), Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR), and nuclear magnetic resonance ((1)H NMR) spectroscopy, coupled with viscosity measurements and atomic force microscopy (AFM) technique. The results suggested that NOL interacted with ctDNA by intercalation mode. CD and AFM assays showed that NOL can damage the base stacking of ctDNA and result in regional cleavage of the two DNA strands. FT-IR and (1)H NMR spectra coupled with molecular docking revealed that a specific binding mainly exists between NOL and G-C base pairs of the ctDNA where two hydrogen bonds form. Moreover, the association constants of NOL with DNA at three different temperatures were determined to be in the 10(3) L mol(-1) range. The calculated thermodynamic parameters suggested that the binding of NOL to ctDNA was driven mainly by hydrogen bond and van der Waals.
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