A Chiral Wedge Molecule Inhibits Telomerase Activity
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Abstract
In addition to the Watson-Crick double helix, secondary DNA structures are thought to play important roles in a variety of biological processes. One important example is the G-quadruplex structure that is formed at the chromosome ends, which inhibits telomerase activity by blocking its access to telomeres. G-quadruplex structures represent a new class of molecular targets for DNA-interactive compounds that may be useful to target telomeres. Here, we reported the first example of enantioselective recognition of quadruplex DNA by a chiral cyclic helicene. We propose a new ligand-binding cleft between two telomeric human G-quadruplexes linked by a TTA linker. We found that the cyclic helicene M1 exhibited potent inhibitory activity against telomerase.
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