DNA and its associated processes as targets for cancer therapy

LH Hurley - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2002 - nature.com
DNA is the molecular target for many of the drugs that are used in cancer therapeutics, and
is viewed as a non-specific target of cytotoxic agents. Although this is true for traditional …

[PDF][PDF] Molecular recognition of DNA by small molecules

PB Dervan - Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry, 2001 - dervan.caltech.edu
Chemists, like artists, are able to construct new threedimensional objects, molecules and
materials that exist only in the mind of a person. I became interested in creating novel …

Recognition of the DNA minor groove by pyrrole-imidazole polyamides

PB Dervan, BS Edelson - Current opinion in structural biology, 2003 - Elsevier
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DNA minor-groove recognition by small molecules

S Neidle - Natural product reports, 2001 - pubs.rsc.org
DNA has for many years been the traditional target for chemotherapeutic intervention1 in
human cancers, especially for those where high proliferation rates of some tumour cell types …

A simple, high-resolution method for establishing DNA binding affinity and sequence selectivity

DL Boger, BE Fink, SR Brunette, WC Tse… - Journal of the …, 2001 - ACS Publications
Full details of the development of a simple, nondestructive, and high-throughput method for
establishing DNA binding affinity and sequence selectivity are described. The method is …

Recognition of the four Watson–Crick base pairs in the DNA minor groove by synthetic ligands

S White, JW Szewczyk, JM Turner, EE Baird… - Nature, 1998 - nature.com
The design of synthetic ligands that read the information stored in the DNA double helix has
been a long-standing goal at the interface of chemistry and biology,,,,. Cell-permeable small …

Structural basis of DNA folding and recognition in an AMP-DNA aptamer complex: distinct architectures but common recognition motifs for DNA and RNA aptamers …

CH Lin, DJ Patei - Chemistry & biology, 1997 - cell.com
Background: Structural studies by nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) of RNA and DNA
aptamer complexes identified through in vitro selection and amplification have provided a …

Recognition of DNA by designed ligands at subnanomolar concentrations

JW Trauger, EE Baird, PB Dervan - Nature, 1996 - nature.com
SMALL molecules that specifically bind with high affinity to any predetermined DNA
sequence in the human genome would be useful tools in molecular biology and potentially …

Cyanine dye–DNA interactions: intercalation, groove binding, and aggregation

BA Armitage - DNA Binders and Related Subjects: -/-, 2005 - Springer
The cyanine dyes are among the oldest classes of synthetic compounds but continue to find
applications in a variety of fields. In many cases, the dyes act as fluorescent labels for …

Regulation of gene expression by small molecules

JM Gottesfeld, L Neely, JW Trauger, EE Baird… - Nature, 1997 - nature.com
Small molecules that target specific DNA sequences have the potential to control gene
expression. Ligands designed for therapeutic application must bind any predetermined DNA …