Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters 1999-10-18

Design, synthesis and DNA-cleavage of Gly-Gly-His-naphthalene diimide conjugates.

V Steullet, D W Dixon

Index: Bioorg. Med. Chem. Lett. 9(20) , 2935-40, (1999)

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Abstract

Naphthalene diimides with one and two metal-chelating Gly-Gly-His (GGH) motifs have been synthesized. Both conjugates induce single-stranded cleavage of plasmid pBR322 DNA in the presence of nickel and Oxone and are approximately 100-fold more efficient than Ni(II) x GH-CONH2 itself.


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