Molecular mechanical simulations on double intercalation of 9-amino acridine into d(CGCGCGC) X d(GCGCGCG): analysis of the physical basis for the neighbor-exclusion principle.

Abstract:

:The neighbor-exclusion principle is one of the most general and interesting rules describing intercalative DNA binding by small molecules. It suggests that such binding can only occur at every other base-pair site, reflecting a very large negative cooperativity in the binding process. We have carried out molecular mechanics and molecular dynamics simulations to study intercalation complexes between 9-amino acridine and the base-paired heptanucleotide d(CGCGCGC) X d(GCGCGCG), in which the neighbor-exclusion principle was both obeyed and violated. Our studies find no stereochemical preference that favors the neighbor-exclusion-obeying structures over the neighbor-exclusion-violating structures. Alternative explanations for the existence of the neighbor-exclusion principle are vibrational entropy effects that we calculate to favor the more flexible neighbor-exclusion models over the more rigid neighbor-exclusion-violating models and polyelectrolyte (counterion release) effects.

authors

Rao SN,Kollman PA

doi

10.1073/pnas.84.16.5735

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1987-08-01 00:00:00

pages

5735-9

issue

16

eissn

0027-8424

issn

1091-6490

journal_volume

84

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