Submitted by Marco Antônio de Ramos Chagas (mchagas@ufv.br) on 2016-05-25T16:16:51Z No. of bitstreams: 1 texto completo.pdf: 5635225 bytes, checksum: 95ddb52f9761379763555962c8aa641f (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-05-25T16:16:51Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 texto completo.pdf: 5635225 bytes, checksum: 95ddb52f9761379763555962c8aa641f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-03-21 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Neste trabalho, utilizando tres técnicas experimentais (pinoa optica, espalhamento di- namico de luz e calorimetria isotérmica de titulaoao), nés investigamos alguns ligantes que, além da intercalagao simples, apresentam outro mecanismo de interaoao com a molécula de DNA. Inicialmente, nos fizemos a caracterizaoao da molécula de DNA com dois ligantes: a Actinomicina D, que é um farmaco largamente utilizado em doen- Qas trofoblasticas gestacionais, tumor de Wilms e rabdomiossarcoma e o GelRed, um marcador de acidos nucléicos utilizado em experimentos de eletroforese. Utilizando dois modelos teoricos (o modelo estatistico de dois sitios e o modelo de exclusao de Vizinhos), foi possivel extrair os parametros fisico-quimicos das interaoo'es utilizando-se apenas os dados obtidos a partir dos experimentos de estiramento. Por liltimo, nos investigamos a interagao do DNA com dois ligantes (Brometo de Etidio e GelRed) em solugo'es contendo Poli(etileno glicol) 8000, a fim de estudarmos o comportamento do DNA em solugo'es contendo outras macromoléculas, simulando, de forma bastante simplificada, o meio no qual 0 DNA se encontra in viva. / In this work, by using three experimental techniques (optical tweezers, dynamic light scattering and isothermal titration calorimetry), we have investigated some ligands that, beside simple intercalation, have an additional mechanism of interaction with the DNA molecule. Firstly, we have performed the characterization of DNA molecule with two ligands: Actinomycin D, which is a drug widely used in gestational trophoblastic disease, Wilm’s tumor and rhabdomyosarcoma and GelRed, which is a fluorescent nucleic acid stain, used in electrophoresis technique. By using two theoretical models (quenched disorder statistical model and neighbor exclusion model), it was possible to extract some physicochemical parameters of the interaction from the data obtained by single molecule stretching experiments. Finally, we have investigated the interaction of the DNA molecule with two ligands (Ethidium Bromide and GelRed) in Poly(ethylene- glycol) 8000-rich solutions, in order to study the behavior of the DNA molecules in a crowd environment, mimicking, in a very simple way, the in viva environment.