Photoinduced in situ generation of DNA-targeting ligands: DNA-binding and DNA-photodamaging properties of benzo[c]quinolizinium ions

• Julika Schlosser,
• Olga Fedorova,
• Yuri Fedorov and
• Heiko Ihmels

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2024, 20, 101–117, doi:10.3762/bjoc.20.11

• , even under anaerobic conditions. Investigations of the mechanism of the DNA damage revealed the involvement of intermediate hydroxyl radicals and C-centered radicals. Under aerobic conditions, singlet oxygen only contributes to marginal extent to the DNA damage. Keywords: DNA intercalators

• ; heterocycles; photocyclization; photosensitizer; styrylpyridines; Introduction DNA intercalators – most often represented by small planar heteroaromatic compounds – play an important role as chemotherapeutic agents [1][2][3][4]. Specifically, upon intercalation into the DNA double helix such ligands can cause

• a change of the DNA structure or occupy binding sites of essential enzymes, which in turn may influence or even inhibit important biochemical processes, for example DNA replication or transcription [1][2]. As a result, the development of DNA-targeting drugs still involves the design of suitable DNA

Synthesis, crystal structures and properties of carbazole-based [6]helicenes fused with an azine ring

• Daria I. Tonkoglazova,
• Anna V. Gulevskaya,
• Konstantin A. Chistyakov and
• Olga I. Askalepova

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2021, 17, 11–21, doi:10.3762/bjoc.17.2

• [31], chemical sensors [32], DNA-intercalators [33][34] etc. Besides typical carbohelicenes, heterohelicenes, incorporating one or more heteroaromatic units in the skeleton, have also gained increasing attention [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11]. The presence of heteroatoms (S, N, O, P) in the fused

Reversible photoswitching of the DNA-binding properties of styrylquinolizinium derivatives through photochromic [2 + 2] cycloaddition and cycloreversion

• Sarah Kölsch,
• Heiko Ihmels,
• Jochen Mattay,
• Norbert Sewald and
• Brian O. Patrick

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2020, 16, 111–124, doi:10.3762/bjoc.16.13

• deactivation of a stilbene tyrosine kinase inhibitor by a [2 + 2] photocycloaddition [59]. As the quinolizinium ion has been established as a versatile platform for the development of DNA intercalators [60], we identified styryl-substituted quinolizinium derivatives as a promising basis for the search for

• general showed the characteristic signatures of DNA intercalators. Namely, the negative LD bands of the bound ligands unambiguously revealed an intercalative mode [75][76], whereas the positive ICD bands indicated an essentially perpendicular alignment of the transition dipole moments of the ligands

A heteroditopic macrocycle as organocatalytic nanoreactor for pyrroloacridinone synthesis in water

• Piyali Sarkar,
• Sayan Sarkar and
• Pradyut Ghosh

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2019, 15, 1505–1514, doi:10.3762/bjoc.15.152

• apoptotic cells, the investigation of the morphology of nuclei, the direct counting of cultivable bacteria, DNA intercalators, etc. [1][2][3][4]. Pyrrole, another biologically active heterocyclic compound, when fused with acridines affords promising bioactive pyrroloacridinone moieties demonstrating

An overview of recent advances in duplex DNA recognition by small molecules

• Sayantan Bhaduri,
• Nihar Ranjan and
• Dev P. Arya

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2018, 14, 1051–1086, doi:10.3762/bjoc.14.93

Halogen-containing thiazole orange analogues – new fluorogenic DNA stains

• Aleksey A. Vasilev,
• Meglena I. Kandinska,
• Stanimir S. Stoyanov,
• Stanislava B. Yordanova,
• David Sucunza,
• Juan J. Vaquero,
• Obis D. Castaño,
• Stanislav Baluschev and
• Silvia E. Angelova

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 2902–2914, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.283

• valuable properties as nucleic acid stains have made these dyes an irreplaceable tool in the active and developing area of bioanalytical chemical research [9][10]. Cyanine dyes have found various bioanalytical applications as soluble DNA intercalators (e.g., in living cell imaging [11] and flow cytometry

Interactions between cyclodextrins and cellular components: Towards greener medical applications?

• Loïc Leclercq

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 2644–2662, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.261

A journey in bioinspired supramolecular chemistry: from molecular tweezers to small molecules that target myotonic dystrophy

• Steven C. Zimmerman

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2016, 12, 125–138, doi:10.3762/bjoc.12.14

• effort amounted to a nearly 20-year break from DNA intercalators and molecular tweezers. Ed Fenlon, Tom Murray, and Perry Corbin started investigating DNA base-pair analogs and were later joined by Zhanting Li [52], Taiho Park, Jordan Quinn, and Eric Todd [53][54][55][56]. The goal was to understand the

Beyond catalyst deactivation: cross-metathesis involving olefins containing N-heteroaromatics

• Kevin Lafaye,
• Cyril Bosset,
• Lionel Nicolas,
• Amandine Guérinot and
• Janine Cossy

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 2223–2241, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.241

• , biologically relevant conditions were selected (rt, t-BuOH/H2O) and CM involving allyl sulfides that contain functional groups commonly found in DNA-intercalators and N-heteroaromatics were investigated. When a quinoline was present on the allylic sulfide, allylic alcohol was found to be the unique suitable

Pyridinoacridine alkaloids of marine origin: NMR and MS spectral data, synthesis, biosynthesis and biological activity

• Louis P. Sandjo,
• Victor Kuete and
• Maique W. Biavatti

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2015, 11, 1667–1699, doi:10.3762/bjoc.11.183

• phenoxazinones [96], makaluvamines [97], acridones, and acridines alkaloids [98] (Figure 19). Ascididemin (42) and meridine (56) were found to behave like DNA intercalators and telomerase inhibitors, respectively [99]. AK37 (59), an ascididemin related compound was the first pyridoacridine able to stabilize the