Tuning of intercalation and electron-transfer processes between DNA and acridinium derivatives through steric effects

Joseph, Joshy ; Kuruvilla, Elizabeth ; Achuthan, Asha T. ; Ramaiah, Danaboyina ; Schuster, Gary B. (2004) Tuning of intercalation and electron-transfer processes between DNA and acridinium derivatives through steric effects Bioconjugate Chemistry, 15 (6). pp. 1230-1235. ISSN 1043-1802

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Official URL: http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/bc0498222

Related URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/bc0498222

Abstract

A series of acridinium derivatives 1-6, wherein steric factors have been varied systematically through substitution at the 9 position of the acridine ring, have been synthesized and their DNA interactions have been investigated by various biophysical techniques. The unsubstituted and methylacridinium derivatives 1 and 2 and the o-tolylacridinium derivative 6 exhibited high fluorescence quantum yields (φf ≅ 1) and lifetimes (τ = 35, 34, and 25 ns, respectively), when compared with the arylacridinium derivatives 3-5. The acridinium derivatives 1 and 2 showed high DNA binding affinity (K = 7.3-7.7 × 105 M−1), when compared to the arylacridinium derivatives 3-5 (K = 6.9-10 × 104 M−1). DNA melting and viscosity studies establish that in the case of the aryl-substituted systems, the efficiency of DNA binding is in the order, phenyl > p-tolyl > m-tolyl »» o-tolyl derivative. The increase in steric crowding around the acridine ring hinders the DNA binding interactions and thereby leads to negligible binding as observed in the case of 6 (o-tolyl derivative). These results indicate that a subtle variation in the substitution pattern has a profound influence on the photophysical and DNA interactions. Further, they demonstrate that π-stacking interactions of the ligands with DNA are essential for efficient electron transfer between the DNA bases and the ligands. These water soluble and highly fluorescent molecules which differ in their DNA binding mode can act as models to study various DNA-ligand interactions.

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