DNA sequence recognition by an imidazole-containing isopropyl thiazole polyamide (thiazotropsin b)

Suckling, C.J. and Hampshire, Andrew J. and Khairallah, Hannah and Khalaf, A.I. and Ebrahimabadi, Abdolrasoul H. and Waigh, R.D. and Brown, Tom and Fox, Keith R. (2006) DNA sequence recognition by an imidazole-containing isopropyl thiazole polyamide (thiazotropsin b). Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry Letters, 16 (13). pp. 3469-3474. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bmcl.2006.04.007)

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Abstract

We have used DNA footprinting and fluorescence melting experiments to study the sequence specific binding of an imidazole-containing isopropyl-substituted thiazole polyamide (thiazotropsin B) to DNA. While the parent compound (thiazotropsin A) binds to the hexanucleotide sequence ACTAGT, changing one of the N-methylpyrrole groups to N-methylimidazole changes the preferred binding sequence to (A/T)CGCG(T/A). Experiments with DNA fragments that contain variants of this sequence suggest that the ligand can also bind, with lower affinity, to sequences which differ from this by 1 bp in any position.

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Suckling, C.J., Hampshire, Andrew J., Khairallah, Hannah, Khalaf, A.I. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9162-7527, Ebrahimabadi, Abdolrasoul H., Waigh, R.D., Brown, Tom and Fox, Keith R.;
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