Aminoglycoside (neomycin) preference is for A-form nucleic acids, not just RNA: results from a competition dialysis study.
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Aminoglycosides have been at the forefront of antimicrobial therapy for the past 50 years. Their specificity is believed to lie in binding duplex RNAs (rRNA). Competition dialysis studies of various nucleic acid forms with 9-aminoacridine, quinacrine, and a neomycin-acridine conjugate were carried out. Our results suggest a strong preference for aminoglycoside binding to nucleic acids that can adopt an A-type conformation. These results challenge the common belief that aminoglycoside specificity is simply for duplex RNAs.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Journal of the American Chemical Society
دوره 125 34 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2003