Trotta, Roberta (2011) Insight into macromolecular interactions involving nucleic acids: a study of the interaction of G-quadruplexes with pharmacologically active molecules and investigations of the RNA binding properties of LARP4 protein. [Tesi di dottorato] (Unpublished)
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| Item Type: | Tesi di dottorato |
|---|---|
| Resource language: | English |
| Title: | Insight into macromolecular interactions involving nucleic acids: a study of the interaction of G-quadruplexes with pharmacologically active molecules and investigations of the RNA binding properties of LARP4 protein. |
| Creators: | Creators Email Trotta, Roberta roberta.trotta@unina.it |
| Date: | 30 November 2011 |
| Number of Pages: | 198 |
| Institution: | Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II |
| Department: | Chimica delle sostanze naturali |
| Scuola di dottorato: | Scienze farmaceutiche |
| Dottorato: | Scienza del farmaco |
| Ciclo di dottorato: | 24 |
| Coordinatore del Corso di dottorato: | nome email D'Auria, Maria Valeria madauria@unina.it |
| Tutor: | nome email Randazzo, Antonio antonio.randazzo@unina.it |
| Date: | 30 November 2011 |
| Number of Pages: | 198 |
| Keywords: | G-quadruplex;NMR;LARP4 protein |
| Settori scientifico-disciplinari del MIUR: | Area 03 - Scienze chimiche > CHIM/06 - Chimica organica Area 05 - Scienze biologiche > BIO/11 - Biologia molecolare Area 03 - Scienze chimiche > CHIM/08 - Chimica farmaceutica |
| Date Deposited: | 06 Dec 2011 11:35 |
| Last Modified: | 15 Jul 2015 01:00 |
| URI: | http://www.fedoa.unina.it/id/eprint/8950 |
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This dissertation can be divided in two parts. In the first part, my efforts have been focused on the study of the Gquadruplex structures. In chapter one, I describe the unusual arrangement of the DNA to form the G-quadruplex structures and their biological role, underlying the reason why in the last period a lot of research groups focused their studies on this topic. In chapter two, after a brief introduction of the first molecules capable to bind the G-quadruplex (Distamicyn A and its derivates), I describe the new organic molecule capable to interact with the DNA quadruplex, which I have discovered applying some innovative approaches during my PhD. In the second part of this thesis I introduce the research conducted in the laboratory of Dr. Maria R. Conte at the King’s College of London. In this stimulating environment I started studying the structure of the protein LARP4 and its interaction with a poly (A) RNA using the NMR. In the course of my research I have learnt the techniques allowing to do the transformation, the expression and the purification of the protein. A summary presentation of the techniques I have applied is reported in the second part in chapter five.
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