title: Sequence-selective DNA recognition: natural products and nature's lessons.
abstract: Biologically active, therapeutically useful, DNA binding natural products continue to reveal new paradigms for sequence-selective recognition, to enlist beautiful mechanisms of in situ activation for DNA modification, to define new therapeutic targets, to exploit new mechanisms to achieve cellular selectivity, and to provide a rich source of new drugs. These attributes arise in compact structures of complex integrated function.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA.
authors.forename: Winston C
authors.initials: WC
authors.lastname: Tse
authors.forename: Dale L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Boger
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000970:Antineoplastic Agents / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000494:pharmacology; D004247:DNA / Q000737:chemistry / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism*; D006801:Humans; D008958:Models, Molecular; D008968:Molecular Conformation; D011485:Protein Binding / Q000187:drug effects; D013237:Stereoisomerism; D013329:Structure-Activity Relationship; D013379:Substrate Specificity
chemical_list: D000970:Antineoplastic Agents; D004247:DNA