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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Interactions of Anticancer Drugs With DNA Studied by High-Resolution NMR Spectroscopy

Abstract

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The anthracycline daunorubicin has been widely used to treat acute leukemia clinically. The newly designed bisanthracycline bisintercalator WP631 has shown promising results against the anthracycline resistance that is due to the transport proteins, e.g., P-glycoprotein. The 3D structures of 1:1 WP631/d(CGTACG)$\sb2$ and 1:1 WP631/d(CGJACG)$\sb2$ showed that the aglycone rings intercalate slightly shallower than those in the 2:1 DAU/d(CGTACG)$\sb2$ and the daunosamine moieties are elevated from the minor groove floor, which would explain why the binding constant of WP631 to DNA is 3 orders less than expected. WP631 has also shown tight binding to modified DNA d(CGJACG)$\sb2.$ The 3D structures of these two complexes have pointed the direction for the future design of bisanthracycline drugs.

Degree

thesis:*
Name thesis:degree_name
Ph.D.
Level thesis:degree_level
Dissertation
Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
Chemistry
Grantor
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Year dc:date
2015

Author and committee

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Author dc:creator
  • Lian, Chenyang
Contributors dc:contributor
  • Wang, Andrew H.J.

Subjects

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Rights

Language dc:language
eng

Identifiers

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Identifier
(MiAaPQ)AAI9737178
OAI identifier oai:identifier
oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/84367

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Last updated
2026-07-22
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citation

Lian, Chenyang. Interactions of Anticancer Drugs With DNA Studied by High-Resolution NMR Spectroscopy. Dissertation thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2142/84367