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Sequence-specific and Selective Recognition of Double-stranded RNAs over Single-stranded RNAs by Chemically Modified Peptide Nucleic Acids
Published on: September 21, 2017
2,6-Diaminonaphthyridine derivatives bind to a single nucleotide bulge in DNA
Hitoshi Suda1, Shinya Hagihara, Akio Kobori
1Department of Synthetic Chemistry, Faculty of Engineering, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan.
Abstract:
2,6-Diamino-1,8-naphthyridine derivative (daNpt), which possesses hydrogen bonding groups in an alignment of donor-acceptor-acceptor-donor binds to a single nucleotide bulge in the duplex. The melting temperatures (Tm) of all duplexes containing a bulge were increased, especially for the cytosine (C) and thymine (T) bulges, in the presence of daNpt, whereas only a small increase of Tm was observed for the fully matched duplexes. It was suggested by pH dependency of Tm and UV spectra, that a protonation of daNpt should play an important role for the recognition of C and T bulges.
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