Nucleic acids have been among the first targets for antitumor drugs and antibiotics. With the
unveiling of new biological roles in regulation of gene expression, specific DNA and RNA …

Damaging DNA is a current and efficient strategy to fight against cancer cell proliferation.
Numerous mechanisms exist to counteract DNA damage, collectively referred to as the DNA …

Abstract Knowledge of protein–DNA binding specificity has important implications in
understanding DNA metabolism, transcriptional regulation and developing therapeutic …

Luminescent metallo‐intercalators are potent biosensors of nucleic acid structure and
anticancer agents targeting DNAs. There are few examples of luminescent metallo …

Chemosensors play important roles in cation and anion recognition in biological, industrial,
and environmental processes. Although many efforts have been made to develop artificial …

Organometallic compounds currently occupy an important place in the field of medicinal
inorganic chemistry due to the unique chemical properties of metal coordination …

The selective targeting of mismatched DNA overexpressed in cancer cells is an appealing
strategy in designing cancer diagnosis and therapy protocols. Few luminescent probes that …

Unlike the canonical base pairs AT and GC, the molecular properties of mismatches such as
hydrogen bonding and stacking interactions are strongly dependent on the identity of the …

[Ru (bpy) 2 (BNIQ)] 2+(BNIQ= Benzo [c][1, 7] naphthyridine-1-isoquinoline), which
incorporates the sterically expansive BNIQ ligand, is a highly selective luminescent probe for …

Trinucleotide repeat (TNR) diseases are caused by the aberrant expansion of CXG (X= C, A,
G and T) sequences in genomes. We have reported two small molecules binding to TNR …