title: Sensitivity of non-cooperative binding parameters of ligand-DNA complex by computer analysis.
abstract: A simple user-friendly computer programme has been developed to operate on an IBM-PC compatible machine to aid in the process of curve fitting using the McGhee and von Hippel equation [J. Mol Biol, 86 (1974), 469-489] for the analysis of ligand-DNA interactions and the experimental data on berberine-calf thymus DNA and berberine-poly(dI-dC). poly(dI-dC) for non-cooperative binding. A sensitivity analysis on binding constant (K0) and the number of binding sites (N0) show that a small variation in the latter remarkably alters the fitting curve. At a level of 1% change in N0 from the best fit value, the standard deviation grows by almost 4%, while, on the other hand, a 1% change in K0 affects the same value only by less than 0.4%.
authors.affiliation: Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Calcutta.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Nandy
authors.forename: G S
authors.initials: GS
authors.lastname: Kumar
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Maiti
mesh_terms: D001599:Berberine / Q000737:chemistry*; D003201:Computers; D004247:DNA / Q000737:chemistry*; D007700:Kinetics; D008024:Ligands; D008433:Mathematics; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D011089:Polydeoxyribonucleotides / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D008024:Ligands; D011089:Polydeoxyribonucleotides; D001599:Berberine; C031156:poly d(I-C); D004247:DNA