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  • Title: Nuclear Overhauser data and stereochemical considerations suggest that netropsin binds symmetrically within the minor groove of poly(dA).poly(dT), forming hydrogen bonds with both strands of the double helix.
    Author: Dickerson RE, Kopka ML.
    Journal: J Biomol Struct Dyn; 1985 Dec; 3(3):423-31. PubMed ID: 2855974.
    Abstract:
    Sarma et al. (J. Biomol. Str. and Dynam. 2, 1085 (1985) have proposed, on the basis of nuclear magnetic resonance experiments on the complex of netropsin with poly(dA).poly(dT), that the drug molecule lies asymmetrically along the dA side of the minor groove and makes hydrogen bonds only with the dA strand. If the crystal structure analyses of B-DNA (Fratini et al., J. Biol. Chem. 257, 14686 (1982] and of its complex with netropsin (Kopka et al., J. Mol. Biol. 183, 553 (1985] are any guide, this off-center, wide-groove model is stereochemically unlikely. More to the point, the off-center model is unnecessary to explain the observed nmr data. All of the nuclear Overhauser and other observations are fully explained by the structure seen in the x-ray crystal analysis, in which netropsin sits squarely centered within the minor groove, making bifurcated hydrogen bonds with both strands.
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