Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry
Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry
4 years ago

Synthesis and optical properties of pyrrolidinyl peptide nucleic acid bearing a base discriminating fluorescence nucleobase 8-(pyrene-1-yl)-ethynyladenine

Synthesis and optical properties of pyrrolidinyl peptide nucleic acid bearing a base discriminating fluorescence nucleobase 8-(pyrene-1-yl)-ethynyladenine
A combination of fluorophore and nucleobase through a π-conjugated rigid linker integrates the base pairing and the fluorescence change into a single event. Such base discriminating fluorophore can change its fluorescence as a direct response to the base pairing event and therefore have advantages over tethered label or base surrogates lacking the hydrogen-bonding ability. 8-(Pyrene-1-yl)ethynyl-adenine (APyE) has been extensively used as fluorescence labels in DNA and LNA, but it showed little discrimination between different nucleobases. Herein we investigated the synthesis, base pairing ability and optical properties of APyE in pyrrolidinyl peptide nucleic acid – a DNA mimic that shows much stronger affinity and specificity towards DNA than natural oligonucleotides. The APyE in PNA pairs specifically with thymine in the DNA strand, and resulted in 1.5–5.2 fold enhanced and blue-shifted fluorescence emission. Fluorescence quenching was observed in the presence of mismatched base or abasic site directly opposite to the APyE. The behavior of APyE in acpcPNA is distinctively different from DNA whereby a fluorescence was increased selectively upon duplex formation with complementary DNA and therefore emphasizing the unique advantages of using PNA as alternative oligonucleotide probes. Applications as color-shifting probe for detection of trinucleotide repeats in DNA were demonstrated, and the performance of the probe was further improved by combination with reduced graphene oxide as an external nanoquencher.

Publisher URL: www.sciencedirect.com/science

DOI: S096808961731667X

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