Figure 5.
Covalent poisons do not enhance DNA cleavage mediated by the catalytic core of human topoisomerase IIα. Effects of benzoquinone (left) and thymoquinone (right) on DNA cleavage mediated by wild-type human topoisomerase IIα (black), the catalytic core (red), and hTop2αΔ1175 (blue) are shown. Error bars represent the standard deviation of at least three independent experiments.