186391-32-2Relevant academic research and scientific papers
Structural selectivity of aromatic diamidines
Chaires, Jonathan B.,Ren, Jinsong,Hamelberg, Donald,Kumar, Arvind,Pandya, Vandna,Boykin, David W.,Wilson, W. David
, p. 5729 - 5742 (2007/10/03)
Competition dialysis was used to study the interactions of 13 substituted aromatic diamidine compounds with 13 nucleic acid structures and sequences. The results show a striking selectivity of these compounds for the triplex structure poly dA:(poly dT)su
Inhibition of the HIV-1 Rev-RRE complex formation by unfused aromatic cations
Xiao, Ge,Kumar, Arvind,Li, Ke,Rigl, C. Ted,Bajic, Miroslav,Davis, Tina M.,Boykin, David W.,Wilson, W. David
, p. 1097 - 1113 (2007/10/03)
RNA viruses cause a wide range of human diseases. Development of new agents to target such viruses is an active area of research. Towards this goal, a series of diphenylfuran cations as potential inhibitors of the Rev-RRE complex have been designed and synthesized. Analysis of the interaction of the diphenylfurans with RRE and TAR RNA model systems by gel shift assays indicates that they exhibit both sequence and structure-dependent binding modes. Our results show a strong interaction between the diphenylfuran ring system and RRE bases, while the TAR interactions are much weaker with the compounds that are the best inhibitors of Rev-RRE.
Small molecule inhibition of RNA/ligand binding
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, (2008/06/13)
Disclosed is a method for the inhibition of binding of a ligand to an RNA, the inhibition being mediated by a small organic molecule that binds to the RNA, thereby inhibiting ligand binding. A preferred class of small organic molecules are compounds exemp
