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Prospecting the cancer therapeutic edge of chitosan-based gold nanoparticles through conformation selective binding to the parallel G-quadruplex formed by short telomeric DNA sequence: A multi-spectroscopic approach.
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International journal of biological macromolecules [Int J Biol Macromol] 2023 Dec 31; Vol. 253 (Pt 3), pp. 126835. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Sep 12. - Publication Year :
- 2023
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Abstract
- The biological relevance of G4 structures formed in telomere & oncogenes promoters make them extremely crucial therapeutic target for cancer treatment. Herein, we have synthesized chitosan-based gold nanoparticles (CH-Au NPs) through green method and have investigated their interaction with G4 structures formed by short telomeric sequences to evaluate their potential for targeting G4 structures. Firstly, we have characterized morphological/physical attributes of synthesized CH-Au NPs and salt dependent structural aspects of model G-rich DNA sequence, 12-mer d(T <subscript>2</subscript> G <subscript>4</subscript> ) <subscript>2</subscript> [TETRA] using spectroscopic and biophysical techniques. The molecular interactions between CH-Au NPs and parallel/antiparallel TETRA G4 structures were evaluated using UV-Visible, CD, Fluorescence, CD melting, DLS and Zeta potential studies. The experimental data indicated that CH-Au NPs showed strong binding interactions with Parallel TETRA G4 and provided thermal stabilization to the structure, whereas their interactions with Antiparallel TETRA G4 DNA and Ct-DNA (DNA duplex) were found to be negligible. Further, CH-Au NPs were also investigated for their selectivity aptitude for different G4 structures formed by human telomeric sequences; d(T <subscript>2</subscript> AG <subscript>3</subscript> ) <subscript>3</subscript> [HUM-12] and d(T <subscript>2</subscript> AG <subscript>3</subscript> ) <subscript>4</subscript> T [HUM-25]. Our findings suggested that CH-Au NPs exhibited topology specific binding aptitude towards G4 structure, which can be utilized to inhibit/modulate crucial biological functions for potential anticancer activity.<br />Competing Interests: Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.<br /> (Copyright © 2023 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.)
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- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1879-0003
- Volume :
- 253
- Issue :
- Pt 3
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- International journal of biological macromolecules
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 37709220
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2023.126835