摘要:
Bis-Netropsins with the C-ends of their netropsin fragments tethered via tetra- or pentamethylene linkers and with Gly or L-Lys-Gly residues on their N-ends were synthesized. The footprinting technique was used to study the specificity of bis-netropsin binding to the specially constructed DNA fragments containing various clusters of A . T pairs. It was found that the tinker length affects the binding of bis-netropsins, with the tetramethylene tinker providing better protection than the pentamethylene tinker. It was shown that the newly synthesized bis-netropsins bind tighter to the 5'-A(4)T(4)-3' sequence, whereas the bis-netropsin with a linker between the netropsin N-ends binds better to 5'-T(4)A(4)-3' sequences.