Metal Ions in Biological Systems

Molecular modelling of transition metal adducts with nucleic acids and their constituents; zinc complexes as targeting agents for nucleic acids; metallocene interactions with DNA and DNA processing enzymes; evidences for a catalytic activity of the DNA double helix in the reactions between DNA, platinum (II) and intercalators; trans-diammineplatinum (II) - what makes it different from CIS-DDP? coordination chemistry of a neglected relative of cisplatin and its interaction with nucleic acids; metal ions in multiple-stranded DNA; DNA interactions with substitution-intert transition metal ion complexes; effect of metal ions on the fluorescence of dyes bound to DNA; photolytic covalent binding of metal complexes to DNA; electrochemically activated nucleic acid oxidation; electron transfer between metal complexes bound to DNA - is DNA a wire?; porphyrin and metalloporphyrin interactions with DNA; selective DNA cleavage by metalloporphyrin derivatives; synthetic metalloporphyrins as probes of protein-DNA interactions; targeting of nucleic acids by iron complexes; nucleic acid chemistry of the cuprous complexes of 1,10-phenanthroline and derivatives; specific DNA cleavage by manganese (III) complexes; nickel complexes as probes of guanine sites in nucleic acid folding; hydrolytic cleavage of RNA catalyzed by metal ion complexes; RNA recognition and cleavage by iron (III)-bleomycin; metallobleomycin-DNA interactions - structures and reactions related to bleomycin-induced DNA damage.