Figure 2.
Schematic representation of a metal complex interacting with DNA, resulting in elongation of the double-helix (left, sourced from Protein Data Bank (PDB) file 2MG8 [9] with metal complex inserted manually) and cisplatin covalently binding to DNA, causing the double helix to bend (right, sourced from PDB 1AIO) [10]. Central DNA figure sourced from PDB file 1D86 [11]. Oxygen is orange, phosphorous is yellow, carbon is cream/white and nitrogen is blue/purple. The base pairs are also represented as blue/purple rectangular panels.