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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
29
pubmed:dateCreated
1994-8-25
pubmed:abstractText
Tomaymycin is an antibiotic that reacts at guanine N2 in the minor groove of the DNA helix. The number and type of tomaymycin-DNA adducts present on natural sequence DNA were identified using time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy. At low bonding density, only two discrete species were observed with lifetimes of 4.3 and 7.1 ns and relative amplitudes of 40% and 60%. These two lifetime species are proposed to represent either R5' or S5' and S3' binding modes at the preferred bonding sequence 5'-AGA. R and S denote the configuration at C11 of tomaymycin, and 5' and 3' describe the orientation of the aromatic ring on the covalently modified strand. These two species were present over a range of solution conditions, including pH, nucleotide to drug ratio, DNA concentration, and DNA size. They have the same emission spectra, but slightly shifted absorption spectra. The weak temperature dependence of the fluorescence lifetimes presumably is due to the excited-state proton-transfer reaction that quenches tomaymycin fluorescence. The rate of formation of the longer lifetime species of DNA adduct is about twice as fast as that of the shorter lifetime species. Under saturating conditions, the fluorescence decay shows a bimodal lifetime distribution whether analyzed by least-squares assuming a Gaussian distribution model or by the maximum entropy method. The two groups of lifetimes are centered around 2-3 and 6-6.6 ns, reflecting multiple species on different bonding sequences.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jul
pubmed:issn
0006-2960
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
26
pubmed:volume
33
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
8719-27
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1994
pubmed:articleTitle
Time-resolved fluorescence studies of tomaymycin bonding to DNA.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Chemistry, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge 70803.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.