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Introduction
Nucleic acids are common targets for antiviral, anticancer, and
antibiotic drugs. DNA-binding drugs are designed to modulate
gene activity, and RNA-binding drugs inhibit protein translation.
In order to optimize the efficacy of drugs, as well as discover
new drugs, it is important to fully characterize the drug-nucleic
acid interaction, including sequence recognition, structural
details and the thermodynamics of binding.
Microcalorimetry is a tool used to determine the thermodynamics
of intermolecular binding. Both Isothermal Titration
Calorimetry (ITC) and Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC)
are used to elucidate thermodynamic details of nucleic acid-drug
interactions. Thermodynamics, when used in conjunction with
structure, sequence, and computational methods, can be used to
optimize drugs to bind specific sequences and/or structures of
nucleic acid targets.
This application note will review the use of calorimetry to study
the thermodynamics of drug-nucleic acid binding. For more
information, refer to cited references. Several excellent review
articles are also available on this topic (References 1-5). 等温滴定微量热仪(生物大分子相互作用仪) ITC ,MicroCal