Pyrene derivatives can be incorporated into nucleic acid analogs in order to obtain switchable probes or supramolecular architectures. In this paper, peptide nucleic acids (PNAs) containing 1 to 3 1-pyreneacetic acid units (PNA1–6) with a sequence with prevalence of pyrimidine bases, complementary to cystic fibrosis W1282X point mutation were synthesized. These compounds showed sequence-selective switch-on of pyrene excimer emission in the presence of target DNA, due to PNA2DNA triplex formation, with stability depending on the number and positioning of the pyrene units along the chain. An increase in triplex stability and a very high mismatch-selectivity, derived from combined stacking and base-pairing interactions, were found for PNA2, bearing two distant pyrene units.
吡啶衍生物可以被合并到核酸类似物中,以获得可切换的探针或超分子结构。本文中,含有1至3个1-吡啶乙酸单元(PNA1-6)的肽核酸(PNAs)被合成,其序列以嘧啶碱基为主,与囊性纤维化W1282X点突变相互补。这些化合物在存在目标DNA时显示出吡啶激聚体发射的序列选择性开关,这是由于PNA2-DNA三联体形成,其稳定性取决于吡啶单元沿链的数量和位置。对于携带两个相距较远的吡啶单元的PNA2,发现了三联体稳定性的增加以及非常高的错配选择性,这是由于堆叠和碱基配对相互作用的结合所导致的。