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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
Molecular design of DNA alkylating pyrrole-imidazole polyamides with longer recognition sequence
Masafumi Minoshima1, Shunta Sasaki, Ken-ichi Shinohara
1Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Kyoto University, Kitashirakawa-oiwakecho, Sakyo, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan.
Abstract:
The sequence-specificity, and DNA alkylating activity of the conjugate 1, which consists of N-methylpyrrole (Py)-N-methylimidazole (Im) polyamides, 1-(chloromethyl)-5-hydroxy-1,2-dihydro-3H-benz[e]indole (seco-CBI) with indole linker, were investigated in the absence or presence of partner Py-Im polyamide 2. High-resolution denaturing polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis showed that the specificity of DNA alkylation by 1 modulated in the presence of partner 2. We found that sequence-specific DNA alkylation by 1 and 2 with 10 base pair (bp) match recognition sequence through heterodimer formation. This result indicates one possibility of DNA alkylation with longer recognition sequence by different two molecules.
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