Spectrophotometric study of Hoechst 33258 binding to DNA has been investigated. It was shown that this ligand forms at least two types of complexes at 0.002 M and 0.02M ionic strengths of solution. One of them is strong, the other is weak. It was revealed that at 0.02M ionic strength of solution, the binding constant value by strong mode is one order higher than at 0.002M. It was obtained that ...

An essential element of cellular and molecular biology is the ability to quantitate DNA in large numbers of samples at a sensitivity that enables determination of small amounts of sample. Here we describe a fluorescent method to quantitate DNA with Hoechst 33258 dye and the BioTek FL600 fluorescence microplate reader. This assay provides linear results over three orders of magnitude and can rou...

Deoxynucleic guanidine (DNG), a DNA analogue in which positively charged guanidine replaces the phosphodiester linkages, tethering to Hoechst 33258 fluorophore by varying lengths has been synthesized. A pentameric thymidine DNG was synthesized on solid phase in the 3' --> 5' direction that allowed stepwise incorporation of straight chain amino acid linkers and a bis-benzimidazole (Hoechst 33258...

Equilibrium binding experiments using fluorescence and absorption techniques have been performed throughout a wide concentration range (1 nM to 30 microM) of the dye Hoechst 33258 and several DNAs. The most stable complexes found with calf thymus DNA, poly[d(A-T)], d(CCGGAATTCCGG), and d(CGCGAATTCGCG) all have dissociation constants in the range (1-3) X 10(-9) M-1. Such complexes on calf thymus...

Structural transitions of DNA and bovine serum albumin (BSA) their complexes with methylene blue (MB) Hoechst 33258 (H33258) by UV-denaturation method have been studied. The obtained results revel that MB stabilizes both protein dimensional structure double-stranded structure, while H33258 destabilizes structure. It was also revealed the stabilizing effect on native is more pronounced at relati...

The poly(dA) dependent T4 polynucleotide ligase catalyzed polymerization of oligodeoxythymidylates is dependent upon duplex stability. The antibiotics ethidium bromide, netropsin and Hoechst 33258 stabilize the duplex poly(dA) . P(dT)n (n = 6-10) to thermal denaturation. Ethidium bromide to DNA ratio of 1.25 and netropsin or Hoechst 33258 to DNA ratio of 0.1 the Tm of d(pT) 10 . poly (dA) was i...

An analogue of the DNA binding compound Hoechst 33258, which has the para hydroxyl group altered to be at the meta position, together with the replacement of one benzimidazole group by pyridylimidazole, has been cocrystallized with the dodecanucleotide sequence d(CGCGAATTCGCG)2. The X-ray structure has been determined at 2.2 A resolution and refined to an R factor of 20.1%. The ligand binds in ...

An analogue of the DNA-binding compound Hoechst 33258, in which the piperazine ring has been replaced by an imidazoline group, has been cocrystallized with the dodecanucleotide sequence d(CGCGAATTCGCG)2. The structure has been solved by X-ray diffraction analysis and has been refined to an R-factor of 19.7% at a resolution of 2.0 A. The ligand is found to bind in the minor groove, at the centra...