“…Moreover, MTR has been found to cross the blood-brain barrier and is in its preclinical trials in Huntington's disease (Ferrante et al, 2004). Structural analysis revealed that, MTR binds to minor groove of DNA around GC-rich sequences in the presence of bivalent metal ions such as Mg 2+ , Zn 2+ , Co 2+ , Fe 2+ etc (Aich & Dasgupta, 1995;Devi, Pal, Banerjee, & Dasgupta, 2007;Gochin, 1998;Hou & Wang, 2005;Lu, Wang, Yuann, Huang, & Hou, 2009). Previous studies from our laboratory have shown that MTR binds to different types of bivalent metal ions like Mg 2+ , Zn 2+ , and Cu 2+ , of which Mg 2+ belongs to the main group element, whereas Zn 2+ and Cu 2+ are transition metal ions (Aich & Dasgupta, 1995;Devi et al, 2007;Lahiri et al, 2012).…”