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Title: X-ray crystallographic visualization of drug-nucleic acid intercalative binding: structure of an ethidium-dinucleoside monophosphate crystalline complex, ethidium: 5-iodouridylyl(3'-5')adenosine (drug-nucleic acid interactions/intercalation/double helix unwinding)

Journal Article · · Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.; (United States)

The drug ethidium bromide has been cocrystallized with the dinucleoside monophosphate 5-iodouridylyl (3'-5')adenosine. The three-dimensional structure to atomic resolution by x-ray crystallography was solved. This has allowed the direct visualization of intercalative binding by this drug to a fragment of a nucleic acid double helix.

Research Organization:
Univ. of Rochester, NY (United States)
OSTI ID:
7107105
Journal Information:
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.; (United States), Vol. 72:2
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English