title: Detection of elsamicin-DNA binding specificity by restriction enzyme cleavage.
abstract: The sequence specificity of elsamicin A, an anti-tumour antibiotic, binding to DNA was elucidated considering the inhibition of the rate of digestion of linearised pBR322 DNA by AatII, ClaI, EcoRI, HindIII and NruI restriction enzymes. Elsamicin A inhibits the rate of digestion by NruI (recognition sequence TCG/CGA) to a greater extent than it does for the other enzymes, thus evidencing the sequence-selective binding of elsamicin to CGC regions in DNA. Our results also show the important role of the neighbouring sequences in the elsamicin A-DNA interactions and their effects on the cleavage by restriction enzymes.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Bioquímica y Fisiologia, Universidad de Barcelona, Spain.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Párraga
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Portugal
mesh_terms: D000617:Aminoglycosides; D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism*; D000903:Antibiotics, Antineoplastic / Q000378:metabolism*; D001483:Base Sequence; D004247:DNA / Q000378:metabolism*; D004262:DNA Restriction Enzymes / Q000378:metabolism*; D004587:Electrophoresis, Agar Gel; D007700:Kinetics; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D015394:Molecular Structure
chemical_list: D000617:Aminoglycosides; D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents; D000903:Antibiotics, Antineoplastic; D004247:DNA; D004262:DNA Restriction Enzymes; C049904:elsamicin A