ENGINEERING PREFERENCES OF HAIRPIN PNA BINDING TO COMPLEMENTARY DNA: EFFECT OF N7G INaeg/aepPNA BACKBONE
摘要:
AegPNA and aepPNA monomeric units bearing the N7-guanine nucleobase as a substitute for C+ have been demonstrated to bind to a GC base-pair of a duplex in a pH-independent manner when placed in the third strand. The aepPNA backbone exerts a preference for binding in the antiparallel Hoogsteen mode over the parallel Hoogsteen mode.
N7-Guanine as a C+ Mimic in Hairpin aeg/aepPNA-DNA Triplex: Probing Binding Selectivity by UV-Tm and Kinetics by Fluorescence-Based Strand-Invasion Assay
摘要:
N7-substituted guanine (N7G) has been introduced into aminoethylglycyl bisPNA (7) as a C+ mimic to achieve pH-independent triplex formation with complementary DNA sequences. The introduction of chiral, cationic aminoethylprolyl units with C+ and C+ mimic N7G in the backbone of bisPNAs (8, 9) influenced the recognition of complementary DNA in an orientation-selective manner. A simple fluorescence assay is developed to examine the process of strand invasion of target DNA duplex by these modified bisPNAs and comparative results of the study employing triplex forming polypyrimidine (C/T) (6, 8) and purine-pyrimidine (N7G/T) mixmer-bisPNAs (7, 9) are presented.