Diversity in Guanine-Selective DNA Binding Modes for an Organometallic Ruthenium Arene Complex

H-K. Liu, Susan Berners-Price, F. Wang, J.A. Parkinson, J. Xu, J. Bella, P.J. Sadler

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Abstract

Seek and hide! An organometallic ruthenium arene anticancer complex with ruthenium (pink ball) chelated by ethylenediamine (blue) is selective for guanine bases on DNA and can bury the noncoordinated phenyl ring of its arene ligand (yellow) between bases in the double helix.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)8153-8156
JournalAngewandte Chemie (International Edition)
Volume45
Issue number48
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2006

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