scholarly journals Insights into the Relative DNA Binding Affinity and Preferred Binding Mode of Homologous Compounds Using Isothermal Titration Calorimetry (ITC)

Author(s):  
Ruel E.
2013 ◽  
Vol 711 ◽  
pp. 73-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rui Fang Zhang ◽  
Rui Rui Zhang ◽  
Yu Jing Lu ◽  
Zhi Yun Du ◽  
Cheng Jie Fu ◽  
...  

Several derivatives of 5-methyl-benzofuro [3,2-quinoline (O-isostere of cryptolepine) were synthesized. Spectrometric experiments and molecular modeling indicated that these derivatives interacted with duplex DNA by intercalation binding mode. The derivatives with aniline substituent exhibited superior DNA binding affinity to that of lead compound 5-methyl-benzofuro [3,2-quinoline.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Krystyna Ślaska-Kiss ◽  
Nikolett Zsibrita ◽  
Mihály Koncz ◽  
Pál Albert ◽  
Ákos Csábrádi ◽  
...  

AbstractTargeted DNA methylation is a technique that aims to methylate cytosines in selected genomic loci. In the most widely used approach a CG-specific DNA methyltransferase (MTase) is fused to a sequence specific DNA binding protein, which binds in the vicinity of the targeted CG site(s). Although the technique has high potential for studying the role of DNA methylation in higher eukaryotes, its usefulness is hampered by insufficient methylation specificity. One of the approaches proposed to suppress methylation at unwanted sites is to use MTase variants with reduced DNA binding affinity. In this work we investigated how methylation specificity of chimeric MTases containing variants of the CG-specific prokaryotic MTase M.SssI fused to zinc finger or dCas9 targeting domains is influenced by mutations affecting catalytic activity and/or DNA binding affinity of the MTase domain. Specificity of targeted DNA methylation was assayed in E. coli harboring a plasmid with the target site. Digestions of the isolated plasmids with methylation sensitive restriction enzymes revealed that specificity of targeted DNA methylation was dependent on the activity but not on the DNA binding affinity of the MTase. These results have implications for the design of strategies of targeted DNA methylation.


2015 ◽  
Vol 44 (7) ◽  
pp. 3045-3058 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sergey Belikov ◽  
Otto G. Berg ◽  
Örjan Wrange

1991 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 611-616 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dennise D. Dalma-Weiszhausz ◽  
Marc R. Gartenberg ◽  
Donald M. Crothers

2008 ◽  
Vol 49 (22) ◽  
pp. 3620-3624 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmed Kamal ◽  
S. Prabhakar ◽  
N. Shankaraiah ◽  
Ch. Ratna Reddy ◽  
P. Venkat Reddy

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