[Effect of intercalators on the properties of liquid-crystalline dispersions of nucleic acid-chitosan complex]

Mol Biol (Mosk). 2002 Jul-Aug;36(4):699-705.
[Article in Russian]

Abstract

Molecules of deoxyribonucleic acid and synthetic polydeoxyribonucleotides (NA) in the particles of liquid-crystalline dispersions resulting from interaction with chitosan are accessible to interaction with intercalators. The intercalation is accompanied by alteration in the direction of spatial twist of cholesterics of NA-chitosan complexes. This effect is absent in the case of "classical" cholesterics produced from NA molecules via phase exclusion, i.e., the cholesteric structure of NA-chitosan complex is very "labile" as distinct from "classical" cholesteric NA.

Publication types

  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Chitin / analogs & derivatives*
  • Chitin / chemistry*
  • Chitosan
  • Circular Dichroism
  • Crystallization
  • Daunorubicin / chemistry
  • Intercalating Agents / chemistry*
  • Mitoxantrone / chemistry
  • Nucleic Acids / chemistry*
  • Polydeoxyribonucleotides / chemistry

Substances

  • Intercalating Agents
  • Nucleic Acids
  • Polydeoxyribonucleotides
  • Chitin
  • Chitosan
  • Mitoxantrone
  • Daunorubicin