Synthesis and reversible photoisomerization of photoswitchable nucleoside, 8-styryl-2′-deoxyguanosine
摘要:
A novel guanosine derivative with a photoswitching property, 8-styryl-2'-deoxyguanosine was synthesized, and showed very rapid and efficient reversible E-Z photoisomerization upon illumination at specific wavelength. In addition, E-Z photoisomerization can be iteratively performed by alternate illumination with monochroic 254 nm and 370 nm light without any side reactions. (C) 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
We synthesized various substituted 8-styryl-2'-deoxyguanosine and 8-styryl-2'-deoxyadenosine derivatives. Among them only acetyl substituted 8-styryl-2'-deoxyguanosine analog 5b showed a remarkable solvatochromicity (Delta lambda(em)(max) = 91 nm), that is, strong fluorescence at 477 nm in 1,4-dioxane, but in methanol the fluorescence was red shifted to 558 nm with very low intensity. Such environmentally sensitive solvatochromic fluorescent guanosine analogs may be useful as a sensor for investigating interactions of DNA with DNA binding proteins. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.