8.
A method is presented for the electroanalytical characterization of interactions of dsDNA with a drug, under conditions that
both agents are dissolved in the phosphate buffer solution and both are electroactive. Normal pulse, square wave, differential
pulse, and cyclic voltammetries were employed in the measurements of the drug and dsDNA oxidation signals at carbon electrodes.
UV–Vis spectroscopy was used as a non-electrochemical method to support the electroanalytical data. An anticancer drug, C-1311
(5-diethylaminoethyl-amino-8-hydroxyimidazoacridinone), has been selected for the examination. Normal pulse voltammetry was
particularly useful in showing that under the conditions employed neither dsDNA nor the drug were adsorbed at the electrode
surface. Necessary conditions for the appearance of the well-defined dsDNA voltammetric signal (guanine peak) are: rigorous
chemical and biological purity in the cell and appropriate purity of DNA. An analysis of the obtained results confirmed that
there were two modes of interaction between C-1311 and dsDNA: by intercalation and electrostatically. In the presence of excess
NaCl the electrostatic interactions deteriorate. The binding constants (
K
1 and
K
2, respectively) and the number (
n) of nucleic base pairs (bp) and the number (
m) of phosphate groups (pg) interacting with one molecule of drug have been determined. For strong interactions (intercalation)
the values of the binding constant,
K
1, and the binding-site size,
n, equal 3.7 × 10
4 M
−1 and 2.1, respectively. For the weak electrostatic interactions the
K
2 and
m parameters equal 0.28 × 10
4 M
−1 and 4.7. The intercalation process is rather slow and its rate (the conditions of pseudo-first-order reaction) was estimated
to equal 7 × 10
−4 s
−1. The possibility of independent determination of both interacting agents was very useful in the study.
Figure Intercalation of C-1311 into a dsDNA fragment
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