Targeting DNA with “light-up” pyrimidine triple-helical forming oligonucleotides conjugated to stabilizing fluorophores (LU-TFOs)
作者:Brice-Loïc Renard、Rémy Lartia、Ulysse Asseline
DOI:10.1039/b813289e
日期:——
The synthesis of triple-helix-forming oligonucleotides (TFOs) linked to a series of cyanine monomethines has been performed. Eight cyanines including one thiocyanine, four thiazole orange analogues, and three quinocyanines were attached to the 5â²-end of 10-mer pyrimidine TFOs. The binding properties of these modified TFOs with their double-stranded DNA target were studied by absorption and steady-state fluorescence spectroscopy. The stability of the triplex structures depended on the cyanine structure and the linker size used to connect both entities. The most efficient cyanines able to stabilize the triplex structures, when attached at the 5â²-end of the TFO, have been incorporated at both ends and provided triplex structures with increased stability. Fluorescence studies have shown that for the TFOs involving one cyanine, an important intensity increase (up to 37-fold) in the fluorescent signal was observed upon their hybridization with the double-stranded target, proving hybridization. The conjugates involving thiazole orange attached by the benzothiazole ring provided the most balanced properties in terms of triplex stabilization, fluorescence intensity and fluorescence enhancement upon hybridization with the double-stranded target. In order to test the influence of different parameters such as the TFO sequence and length, thiazole orange was used to label 17-mer TFOs. Hybridizations of these TFOs with different duplexes, designed to study the influence of mismatches at both internal and terminal positions on the triplex structures, confirmed the possibility of triplex formation without loss of specificity together with a strong fluorescence enhancement (up to 13-fold).
合成了一系列与青烯单甲基化合物连接的三重螺旋形成寡核苷酸(TFOs)。在10个碱基的嘧啶TFO的5'末端连接了八种青烯,包括一种硫氰酸盐、四种噻唑橙类类似物和三种喹啉青烯。通过吸收光谱和稳态荧光光谱研究了这些修饰TFO与其双链DNA靶标的结合特性。三重螺旋结构的稳定性取决于青烯的结构和用于连接两个实体的连接剂尺寸。当青烯附加在TFO的5'末端时,最有效的青烯能够稳定三重螺旋结构,并在两端合并,提高了三重螺旋结构的稳定性。荧光研究表明,对于涉及一种青烯的TFO,在与双链靶标杂交时,荧光信号的重要强度增加(最高可达37倍)表明了杂交的发生。通过苯噻唑环连接的噻唑橙类共轭物在三重螺旋稳定性、荧光强度和与双链靶标杂交时的荧光增强方面提供了最平衡的特性。为了测试不同参数(如TFO序列和长度)的影响,使用噻唑橙对17个碱基的TFO进行标记。这些TFO与不同的双链进行杂交,以研究内部和末端位置错配对三重螺旋结构的影响,证实了在不失去特异性的情况下形成三重螺旋的可能性,同时伴随强烈的荧光增强(最高可达13倍)。