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Entropy driven binding of the alkaloid chelerythrine to polyadenylic acid leads to spontaneous self-assembled structure formation

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Title Entropy driven binding of the alkaloid chelerythrine to polyadenylic acid leads to spontaneous self-assembled structure formation
 
Creator Basu, Pritha
Kumar, Gopinatha Suresh
 
Subject Chemistry
 
Description The binding thermodynamics and interaction of the putative anticancer alkaloid chelerythrine with polyadenylic acid were investigated by isothermal titration calorimetry, absorption and fluorescence spectroscopy, circular dichroism, differential scanning calorimetry and thermal melting experiments. The equilibrium binding constant was evaluated to be of the order of 107 M�1. Strong positive entropic and favorable enthalpic contributions to the binding were revealed. The binding affinity was enhanced within (10 to 100) mM Na+ concentration. Circular dichroism spectra confirmed that the increase in entropy change was caused by a strong conformational change in the RNA polynucleotide. Absorption and circular dichroism melting studies revealed that chelerythrine binding induced self-assembled duplex structure formation in poly(A) molecules resulting in a cooperative melting profile. This was further confirmed from differential scanning calorimetry data. The intercalation binding of the alkaloid involved strong energy transfer from the polynucleotide bases to the bound alkaloid molecules. The remarkably high entropy driven binding of the alkaloid induced spontaneous self-assembled structure formation in poly(A) and the associated binding affinity is the highest so far reported for a small molecule binding to poly(A).
 
Date 2015
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
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Identifier http://www.eprints.iicb.res.in/2688/1/J._Chem._Thermodynamics_81.pdf
Basu, Pritha and Kumar, Gopinatha Suresh (2015) Entropy driven binding of the alkaloid chelerythrine to polyadenylic acid leads to spontaneous self-assembled structure formation. Journal of Chem Thermodynamics, 81. pp. 116-123.
 
Relation http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jct.2014.09.017
http://www.eprints.iicb.res.in/2688/