Elucidating DNA binding of dithienylethenes from molecular dynamics and dichroism spectra
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2019

DNA binding modes of the stereoisomeric rotamers of two dithenylethene derivatives (DTE1 and DTE2) representing candidate molecular photoswitches of great promise for photopharmacology and nanotechnology have been identified and characterized in terms of their binding energies and electronic circular dichroism (CD) responses. In the open form, two binding modes are identified namely minor-groove binding of the lowest-energy conformer with an anti-parallel arrangement of methyl groups and major-groove double-intercalation of the P-enantiomers of an intermediate-state rotamer. Only the latter binding mode is found to be enantiomerically selective and expected to have an overall negative linear dichroism (LD) as observed in the experiment for DTE1 (Angew. Chem., Int. Ed., 2013, 52, 4393). In the closed form, the most favorable binding mode is found to be minor groove binding. Also this binding mode is found to be enantiomerically selective and for DTE1, it is the M-enantiomer that binds the strongest, showing a positive theoretical signature CD band in the long wavelength region with origin in pyridinium ligands. The theoretical CD spectrum is found to be in good agreement with the experimental one, which provides an indirect evidence for a correct identification of the binding mode in the closed form.

Författare

M. Linares

Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan (KTH)

Haofan Sun

Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan (KTH)

East China University of Science and Technology

Michal Biler

Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan (KTH)

Joakim Andreasson

Chalmers, Kemi och kemiteknik, Kemi och biokemi

Patrick Norman

Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan (KTH)

Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics

1463-9076 (ISSN) 1463-9084 (eISSN)

Vol. 21 7 3637-3643

Styrkeområden

Nanovetenskap och nanoteknik

Ämneskategorier

Strukturbiologi

Teoretisk kemi

Organisk kemi

DOI

10.1039/c8cp05326j

PubMed

30379159

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