Steullet V, Dixon D W
Department of Chemistry and Center for Biotechnology and Drug Design, Georgia State University, Atlanta 30303, USA.
Bioorg Med Chem Lett. 1999 Oct 18;9(20):2935-40. doi: 10.1016/s0960-894x(99)00505-3.
Naphthalene diimides with one and two metal-chelating Gly-Gly-His (GGH) motifs have been synthesized. Both conjugates induce single-stranded cleavage of plasmid pBR322 DNA in the presence of nickel and Oxone and are approximately 100-fold more efficient than Ni(II) x GH-CONH2 itself.