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Roland Pfoh1, Jose A Cuesta-Seijo, George M Sheldrick.
Abstract
The crystal structure of an echinomycin-d(ACGTACGT) duplex interacting with manganese(II) was solved by Mn-SAD using in-house data and refined to 1.1 A resolution against synchrotron data. This complex crystallizes in a different space group compared with related complexes and shows a different mode of base pairing next to the bis-intercalation site, suggesting that the energy difference between Hoogsteen and Watson-Crick pairing is rather small. The binding of manganese to N7 of guanine is only possible because of DNA unwinding induced by the echinomycin, which might help to explain the mode of action of the drug.Entities:
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Year: 2009 PMID: 19574634 PMCID: PMC2705629 DOI: 10.1107/S1744309109019654
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Acta Crystallogr Sect F Struct Biol Cryst Commun ISSN: 1744-3091