Abstract:
:The interaction between biomacromolecules and ligands has attracted great interest because of their biological properties. Calf thymus DNA (ctDNA) can interact with bioactive compounds to form complexes. Here, ctDNA-ligand complexes were studied using fluorescence, absorption, and infrared spectroscopy, circular dichroism, ABTS assay and competitive displacement. The binding constants of bioactive compounds at the intercalative site of ctDNA ranked in order kaempferol > apigenin > quercetin > curcumin > riboflavin, while the binding constants at minor groove sites ranked quercetin > kaempferol > naringenin ~ apigenin > hesperetin > curcumin ~ resveratrol ~ riboflavin > caffeic acid. CtDNA maintained stable B-form with an enhancement of base stacking and a decrease of right-handed helicity in the presence of these bioactive compounds, except for hesperetin and caffeic acid. Bioactive compounds preferentially bound to guanine bases and tended to transfer into a more hydrophobic environment upon complexation with ctDNA. The DNA complexation did not affect the ABTS·+ scavenging capacity of quercetin, kaempferol, resveratrol and apigenin but increased the ones of naringenin, caffeic acid, curcumin, hesperetin and riboflavin. The data gathered here should be useful to understand the binding modes of DNA with ligands for their potential application in pharmaceutical and food industries.
journal_name
Int J Biol Macromoljournal_title
International journal of biological macromoleculesauthors
Ji C,Yin X,Duan H,Liang Ldoi
10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2020.11.135subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2021-01-31 00:00:00pages
775-783eissn
0141-8130issn
1879-0003pii
S0141-8130(20)35060-1journal_volume
168pub_type
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