TY - JOUR AU - Palermo, Giulia AU - Minniti, Elirosa AU - Greco, Maria Laura AU - Riccardi, Laura AU - Simoni, Elena AU - Convertino, Marino AU - Marchetti, Chiara AU - Rosini, Michela AU - Sissi, Claudia AU - Minarini, Anna AU - De Vivo, Marco TI - An optimized polyamine moiety boosts the potency of human type II topoisomerase poisons as quantified by comparative analysis centered on the clinical candidate F14512 JO - Chemical communications VL - 51 IS - 76 SN - 1364-548X CY - Cambridge PB - Soc. M1 - FZJ-2017-03092 SP - 14310 - 14313 PY - 2015 AB - 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. LB - PUB:(DE-HGF)16 UR - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000361073400005 C6 - pmid:26234198 DO - DOI:10.1039/C5CC05065K UR - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/829379 ER -