| Literature DB >> 8367284 |
M S Puvvada1, J A Hartley, T C Jenkins, D E Thurston.
Abstract
An assay has been developed (restriction endonuclease digestion assay--RED100) based on inhibition of the restriction endonuclease BamHI that is capable of quantitative evaluation of the relative DNA-binding affinity of pyrrolo[2,1-c] [1,4]benzodiazepine (PBD) antitumour antibiotics. This method provides comparable results to those obtained from thermal denaturation and ethidium bromide displacement assays but is much more sensitive, discriminating between molecules of similar structure such as DC-81, iso-DC-81 and neothramycin. The results reveal a trend between relative DNA-binding affinity and in vitro cytotoxicity for the PBDs in two tumour cell lines studied.Entities:
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Year: 1993 PMID: 8367284 PMCID: PMC309864 DOI: 10.1093/nar/21.16.3671
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Nucleic Acids Res ISSN: 0305-1048 Impact factor: 16.971