And it demonstrated more than 50% decrease of the emission intensity of the ethidium bromide-calf thymus DNA (EB-CT-DNA) complex in fluorescence spectra, suggesting that pym-5 could strongly affect the DNA conformation. Furthermore, pym-5 showed the cleavage activity upon the supercoiled plasmid pBR322 DNA in the pBR322 DNA cleavage assay. Our study suggests that DNA may serve as a potential target to these pyrazole derivatives.