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Rapid Alkene-Alkene Photo-Cross-Linking on the Base-Flipping-Out Field in Duplex DNA
Ahmed Mostafa Abdelhady1,2,3, Kazumitsu Onizuka1,2,4, Kei Ishida1,2
1Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials, Tohoku University, 2-1-1 Katahira, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8577, Japan.
Abstract:
Specific chemical reactions by enzymes acting on a nucleobase are realized by flipping the target base out of the helix. Similarly, artificial oligodeoxynucleotides (ODNs) can also induce the base flipping and a specific chemical reaction. We now report an easily prepared and unique structure-providing photo-cross-linking reaction by taking advantage of the base-flipping-out field formed by alkene-type base-flipping-inducing artificial bases. Two 3-arylethenyl-5-methyl-2-pyridone nucleosides with the Ph or An group were synthesized and incorporated into the ODNs. We found that the two Ph derivatives provided the cross-linked product in a high yield only by a 10 s photoirradiation when their alkenes overlap each other in the duplex DNA. The highly efficient reaction enabled forming a cross-linked product even when using the duplex with a low Tm value.
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