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Published on: August 19, 2013
Fluorescence and electrochemical detection of pyrimidine/purine transversion by a ferrocenyl aminonaphthyridine
Kotaro Morita1, Yusuke Sato, Takehiro Seino
1Department of Chemistry, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8578, Japan.
Abstract:
A novel hydrogen bond-forming ligand for pyrimidine/purine transversion, which contains both a fluorescent naphthyridine moiety and a ferrocenyl group as an electrochemical indicator, is described. Hydrogen bond-mediated recognition for a target nucleobase at an abasic site in a DNA duplex is confirmed by both fluorescence and electrochemical measurements. The analysis by fluorescence titration reveals that the ligand shows significant fluorescent quenching upon formation of a 1 : 1 complex with the target nucleobase opposite the abasic site, and the selectivity is in the order of cytosine > thymine > adenine, guanine, reflecting the stability of the hydrogen bond formation.

