Tomczyk, Mateusz D. and Zalewski, Mariusz and Jørgensen, Per T. and Wengel, Jesper and Walczak, Krzysztof (2021) Polyamine–Oligonucleotide Conjugates: 2′-OMe-Triazole-Linked 1,4,7,10-Tetraazacyclododecane and Intercalating Dyes and Their Effect on the Thermal Stability of DNA Duplexes. Pharmaceutics, 14 (1). p. 66. ISSN 1999-4923
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Abstract
Oligonucleotides with the sequences 5′-GTG AUPA TGC, 5′-GCA TAUP CAC and 5′-GUPG ATA UPGC, where UP is 2′-O-propargyl uridine, were subjected to post-synthetic Cu(I)-catalyzed azide–alkyne cycloaddition to attach 1,4,7,10-tetraazacyclododecane (cyclen) and two well-known DNA intercalating dyes: thioxanthone and 1,8-naphthalimide. We propose a convenient cyclen protection–deprotection strategy that allows efficient separation of the resulting polyamine–oligonucleotide conjugates from the starting materials by RP-HPLC to obtain high-purity products. In this paper, we present hitherto unknown macrocyclic polyamine–oligonucleotide conjugates and their hybridization properties reflected in the thermal stability of thirty-two DNA duplexes containing combinations of labeled strands, their unmodified complementary strands, and strands with single base pair mismatches. Circular dichroism measurements showed that the B-conformation is retained for all dsDNAs consisting of unmodified and modified oligonucleotides. An additive and destabilizing effect of cyclen moieties attached to dsDNAs was observed. Tm measurements indicate that placing the hydrophobic dye opposite to the cyclen moiety can reduce its destabilizing effect and increase the thermal stability of the duplex. Interestingly, the cyclen-modified U showed significant selectivity for TT mismatch, which resulted in stabilization of the duplex. We conclude the paper with a brief review and discussion in which we compare our results with several examples of oligonucleotides labeled with polyamines at internal strand positions known in the literature.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | oligonucleotide conjugates; duplex stability; thioxanthone; 1,8-napthalimide; cyclen |
Subjects: | Euro Archives > Medical Science |
Depositing User: | Managing Editor |
Date Deposited: | 12 Nov 2022 05:01 |
Last Modified: | 24 Aug 2023 04:03 |
URI: | http://publish7promo.com/id/eprint/114 |