DNA sequence recognition in the minor groove by hairpin pyrrole polyamide-Hoechst 33258 analogue conjugate
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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
Putta Mallikarjuna Reddy1, Rachel Dexter, Thomas C Bruice
1Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA.
Abstract:
A hairpin pyrrole polyamide conjugated to a Hoechst 33258 (Ht) analogue, PyPyPy-gamma-PyPyPy-gamma-Ht, was synthesized on solid-phase by adaptation of an Fmoc technique using a series of PyBOP/HOBt mediated coupling reactions. Sequence selectivity and complex stabilities were characterized by spectrofluorometric titrations and thermal melting studies. The polyamide of the conjugate was observed to bind in a hairpin motif forming 1:1 conjugate:dsDNA complexes. The conjugate is able to recognize nine contiguous A/T bps, discriminating from the sequences containing fewer than nine contiguous A/T bps.
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