Simon, H. and Kittler, L. and Baird, E. and Dervan, P. and Zimmer, C. (2000) Selective inhibition of DNA gyrase in vitro by a GC specific eight-ring hairpin polyamide at nanomolar concentration. FEBS Letters, 471 (2-3). pp. 173-176. ISSN 0014-5793 . http://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20160510-091111559
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Abstract
The influence of an eight-ring hairpin DNA minor groove binder on the gyrase mediated DNA supercoiling and cleavage reaction step of the enzyme was investigated. The results demonstrate that supercoiling is affected by the hairpin polyamide in the millimolar concentration range while the enzyme catalyzed cleavage of a 162 bp fragment of pBR322 containing a single strong gyrase site is effectively inhibited at nanomolar concentration. As demonstrated by footprint analysis the latter effect is caused by a specific binding of the hairpin forming polyamide to the enzyme recognition site (GGCC), which indicates that the gyrase activity to produce a double strand break is blocked at this site. The pyrrole-imidazole hairpin polyamide is the most potent inhibitor of the gyrase mediated cleavage reaction compared to other known anti-gyrase active DNA binding agents.
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| Additional Information: | © 2000 Federation of European Biochemical Societies. Received 2 March 2000. The support of this work by Thüringer Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur is gratefully acknowledged. | |||||||||
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| Subject Keywords: | DNA gyrase; Inhibition; Minor groove binder | |||||||||
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| Official Citation: | Simon H.,Kittler L.,Baird E.,Dervan P. and Zimmer C.(2000), Selective inhibition of DNA gyrase in vitro by a GC specific eight-ring hairpin polyamide at nanomolar concentration, FEBS Letters, 471, doi: 10.1016/S0014-5793(00)01390-9 | |||||||||
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