%0 Journal Article %A Palermo, Giulia %A Minniti, Elirosa %A Greco, Maria Laura %A Riccardi, Laura %A Simoni, Elena %A Convertino, Marino %A Marchetti, Chiara %A Rosini, Michela %A Sissi, Claudia %A Minarini, Anna %A De Vivo, Marco %T An optimized polyamine moiety boosts the potency of human type II topoisomerase poisons as quantified by comparative analysis centered on the clinical candidate F14512 %J Chemical communications %V 51 %N 76 %@ 1364-548X %C Cambridge %I Soc. %M FZJ-2017-03092 %P 14310 - 14313 %D 2015 %X Combined computational–experimental analyses explain and quantify the spermine-vectorized F14512's boosted potency as a topoII poison. We found that an optimized polyamine moiety boosts drug binding to the topoII/DNA cleavage complex, rather than to the DNA alone. These results provide new structural bases and key reference data for designing new human topoII poisons. %F PUB:(DE-HGF)16 %9 Journal Article %U <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000361073400005 %$ pmid:26234198 %R 10.1039/C5CC05065K %U https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/829379