Simulations of action of DNA topoisomerases to investigate boundaries and shapes of spaces of knots.

The configuration space available to randomly cyclized polymers is divided into subspaces accessible to individual knot types. A phantom chain utilized in numerical simulations of polymers can explore all subspaces, whereas a real closed chain forming a figure-of-eight knot, for example, is confined to a subspace corresponding to this knot type only. One can conceptually compare the assembly of configuration spaces of various knot types to a complex foam where individual cells delimit the configuration space available to a given knot type. Neighboring cells in the foam harbor knots that can be converted into each other by just one intersegmental passage. Such a segment-segment passage occurring at the level of knotted configurations corresponds to a passage through the interface between neighboring cells in the foamy knot space. Using a DNA topoisomerase-inspired simulation approach we characterize here the effective interface area between neighboring knot spaces as well as the surface-to-volume ratio of individual knot spaces. These results provide a reference system required for better understanding mechanisms of action of various DNA topoisomerases.

Efficient photodynamic therapy of cancer using chemotherapeutic porphyrin-ruthenium metalla-cubes.

Two cationic octanuclear metalla-cubes [Ru(8)(η(6)-C(6)H(5)Me)(8)(tpp-H2)(2)(dhbq)(4)](8+) and [Ru(8)(η(6)-p-iPrC(6)H(4)Me)(8)(tpp-H2)(2)(dhbq)(4)](8+) were prepared and evaluated as dual photosensitizers and chemotherapeutics in cancer cells. In the dark, the complexes presented high cytotoxicity towards only melanoma and ovarian cancer cells. However, the complexes exhibited good phototoxicities toward all cancer cells (1μM concentration, LD(50)=2-7J/cm(2)), thus suggesting a dual synergistic effect with good properties of both the arene ruthenium chemotherapeutics and the porphyrin photosensitizers.

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