M Roychoudhury
Articles written in Journal of Biosciences
Volume 8 Issue 3-4 August 1985 pp 713-720
Quantum mechanical studies on the activity of anticancerous drug — Ellipticine
Nitish K Sanyal M RoyChoudhury S N Tiwari
Ellipticine compounds, derivatives of pyrido-(4-3b) carbazole are used in the human cancer therapy. Most of these drugs interact directly with DNA molecule. CNDO method, alongwith second order perturbation theory and multicentered-multipole approxiation have been used to compute intermolecular interaction energies of ellipticine with DNA ase pairs (GC and AT) in both normal and inverted cases. An attempt has been made to correlate the drug-nucleic acid interactions for ellipticine to locate site of drug action and binding pattern on the basis of intermolecular forces
Volume 12 Issue 3 September 1987 pp 311-320
Rajendra Prasad Ojha M Roychoudhury Nitish K Sanyal
The biological activity of oxoformycin B has been exafned on the basis of the model developed for the incorporation of nucleoside analogues during transcription. Claverie’s simplified formula has been employed for intermolecular interaction energy calculation. The pairing energy of oxoformycin B base with complementary bases as well as the association energy with nucleic acid base pairs have been calculated. The results are compared with those of similar computation with normal bases. In addition to the in-plane interaction the vertical interaction energy between the analogue and the normal bases has been computed to specify the particular position of the analogue in the chain. On the basis of the model an attempt has been made to explain the mechanism of the biological action of oxoformycin B and to compare the biological activity of pyrazolopyrimidine nucleoside analogues.
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