Flexibility and Preorganization of Fluorescent Nucleobase-Pyrene Conjugates Control DNA and RNA Recognition
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2020

We synthesized a new amino acid-fluorescent nucleobase derivative (qAN1-AA) and from it two new fluorescent nucleobase-fluorophore (pyrene) conjugates, whereby only the analogue with the longer and more flexible linker (qAN1-pyr2) self-folded into intramolecularly stacked qAN1/pyrene conformation, yielding characteristic, 100 nm-red-shifted emission (lambda(max) = 500 nm). On the contrary, the shorter and more rigid linker resulted in non-stacked conformation (qAN1-pyr1), characterized by the emission of free pyrene at lambda(max) = 400 nm. Both fluorescent nucleobase-fluorophore (pyrene) conjugates strongly interacted with ds-DNA/RNA grooves with similar affinity but opposite fluorescence response (due to pre-organization), whereas the amino acid-fluorescent base derivative (qAN1-AA) was inactive. However, only intramolecularly self-folded qAN1-pyr2 showed strong fluorescence selectivity toward poly U (Watson-Crick complementary to qAN1 nucleobase) and poly A (reverse Hoogsteen complementary to qAN1 nucleobase), while an opposite emission change was observed for non-complementary poly G and poly C. Non-folded analogue (qAN1-pyr1) showed no ss-RNA selectivity, demonstrating the importance of nucleobase-fluorophore pre-organization.

intramolecular pre-organization

pyrene

RNA recognition

DNA

hydrogen bonding

fluorescent nucleobase

Författare

Zeljka Ban

Ruder Boskovic Institute

Josipa Matic

Ruder Boskovic Institute

Biserka Zinic

Ruder Boskovic Institute

Anders Foller Füchtbauer

Göteborgs universitet, Institutionen för Kemi

Marcus Wilhelmsson

Chalmers, Kemi och kemiteknik, Kemi och biokemi

Ivo Piantanida

Ruder Boskovic Institute

Molecules

1420-3049 (ISSN) 14203049 (eISSN)

Vol. 25 9 2188

Ämneskategorier

Biokemi och molekylärbiologi

Biofysik

Organisk kemi

DOI

10.3390/molecules25092188

PubMed

32392853

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