摘要:
Herein we report the synthesis and characterization of a polyintercalator with eight potential intercalating 1,4,5,8-naphthalenetetracarboxylic diimide (NDI) units linked in a head-to-tail arrangement via a peptide linker. W spectroscopy and viscometry measurements indicated the molecule binds to double-stranded DNA with all eight NDI units intercalated simultaneously. Competition dialysis and DNAse 1 footprinting studies revealed a preference for GC-rich regions of DNA, and circular dichroism studies revealed significant distortion of B-form DNA upon binding. Our so-called 'octamer' represents, to the best of our knowledge, the first intercalator that binds as an octakis-intercalator, capable of spanning at least 16 base pairs of DNA. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.