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Suparpprom C, Vilaivan T. Perspectives on conformationally constrained peptide nucleic acid (PNA): insights into the structural design, properties and applications. RSC Chem Biol 2022; 3:648-697. [PMID: 35755191 PMCID: PMC9175113 DOI: 10.1039/d2cb00017b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/18/2022] [Accepted: 03/17/2022] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Peptide nucleic acid or PNA is a synthetic DNA mimic that contains a sequence of nucleobases attached to a peptide-like backbone derived from N-2-aminoethylglycine. The semi-rigid PNA backbone acts as a scaffold that arranges the nucleobases in a proper orientation and spacing so that they can pair with their complementary bases on another DNA, RNA, or even PNA strand perfectly well through the standard Watson-Crick base-pairing. The electrostatically neutral backbone of PNA contributes to its many unique properties that make PNA an outstanding member of the xeno-nucleic acid family. Not only PNA can recognize its complementary nucleic acid strand with high affinity, but it does so with excellent specificity that surpasses the specificity of natural nucleic acids and their analogs. Nevertheless, there is still room for further improvements of the original PNA in terms of stability and specificity of base-pairing, direction of binding, and selectivity for different types of nucleic acids, among others. This review focuses on attempts towards the rational design of new generation PNAs with superior performance by introducing conformational constraints such as a ring or a chiral substituent in the PNA backbone. A large collection of conformationally rigid PNAs developed during the past three decades are analyzed and compared in terms of molecular design and properties in relation to structural data if available. Applications of selected modified PNA in various areas such as targeting of structured nucleic acid targets, supramolecular scaffold, biosensing and bioimaging, and gene regulation will be highlighted to demonstrate how the conformation constraint can improve the performance of the PNA. Challenges and future of the research in the area of constrained PNA will also be discussed.
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- Chaturong Suparpprom
- Department of Chemistry and Center of Excellence for Innovation in Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Naresuan University, Tah-Poe District, Muang Phitsanulok 65000 Thailand
- Organic Synthesis Research Unit, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University Phayathai Road Pathumwan Bangkok 10330 Thailand
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- Department of Chemistry and Center of Excellence for Innovation in Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Naresuan University, Tah-Poe District, Muang Phitsanulok 65000 Thailand
- Organic Synthesis Research Unit, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University Phayathai Road Pathumwan Bangkok 10330 Thailand
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Ngamwiriyawong P, Vilaivan T. Synthesis and nucleic acids binding properties of diastereomeric aminoethylprolyl peptide nucleic acids (aepPNA). NUCLEOSIDES NUCLEOTIDES & NUCLEIC ACIDS 2011; 30:97-112. [PMID: 21360408 DOI: 10.1080/15257770.2010.547839] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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A general synthetic method for Fmoc-protected monomers of all four diastereomeric aminoethyl peptide nucleic acid (aepPNA) has been developed. The key reaction is the coupling of nucleobase-modified proline derivatives and Fmoc-protected aminoacetaldehyde by reductive alkylation. Oligomerization of the aepPNAs up to 10mer was achieved by Fmoc-solid phase peptide synthesis methodology. Preliminary binding studies of these aepPNA oligomers with nucleic acids suggested that the "cis-" homothymine aepPNA decamers with (2'R,4'R) and (2'S,4'S) configurations can bind, albeit with slow kinetics, to their complementary RNA [poly(adenylic acid)] but not to the complementary DNA [poly(deoxyadenylic acid)]. On the other hand, the trans homothymine aepPNA decamers with (2'R,4'S) and (2'S,4'R) configurations failed to form stable hybrid with poly(adenylic acid) and poly(deoxyadenylic acid). No hybrid formation could be observed between a mixed-base (2'R,4'R)-aepPNA decamer with DNA and RNA in both antiparallel and parallel orientations.
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- Patcharee Ngamwiriyawong
- Organic Synthesis Research Unit, Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
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Merino P, Tejero T, Matés J, Chiacchio U, Corsaro A, Romeo G. 3-(Aminomethyl)-2-(carboxymethyl)isoxazolidinyl nucleosides: building blocks for peptide nucleic acid analogues. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2007. [DOI: 10.1016/j.tetasy.2007.06.029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Worthington RJ, O'Rourke AP, Morral J, Tan THS, Micklefield J. Mixed-sequence pyrrolidine-amide oligonucleotide mimics: Boc(Z) synthesis and DNA/RNA binding properties. Org Biomol Chem 2006; 5:249-59. [PMID: 17205168 DOI: 10.1039/b613386j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Pyrrolidine-amide oligonucleotide mimics (POMs) exhibit promising properties for potential applications, including in vivo DNA and RNA targeting, diagnostics and bioanalysis. Before POMs can be evaluated in these applications it is first necessary to synthesise and establish the properties of fully modified oligomers, with biologically relevant mixed sequences. Accordingly, Boc-Z-protected thyminyl, adeninyl and cytosinyl POM monomers were prepared and used in the first successful solid phase synthesis of a mixed sequence POM, Lys-TCACAACTT-NH2. UV thermal denaturation studies revealed that the POM oligomer is capable of hybridising with sequence selectivity to both complementary parallel and antiparallel RNA and DNA strands. Whilst the duplex melting temperatures (Tm) were higher than the corresponding duplexes formed with isosequential PNA, DNA and RNA oligomers the rates of association/dissociation of the mixed sequence POM with DNA/RNA targets were noticeably slower.
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- Roberta J Worthington
- School of Chemistry and Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre, The University of Manchester, 131 Princess Street, Manchester, UKM1 7DN
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Aguado GP, Rúa F, Branchadell V, Nielsen PE, Ortuño RM. Cyclobutyl-carbonyl substituted PNA: synthesis and study of a novel PNA derivative. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2006. [DOI: 10.1016/j.tetasy.2006.09.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Govindaraju T, Madhuri V, Kumar VA, Ganesh KN. Cyclohexanyl peptide nucleic acids (chPNAs) for preferential RNA binding: effective tuning of dihedral angle beta in PNAs for DNA/RNA discrimination. J Org Chem 2006; 71:14-21. [PMID: 16388612 DOI: 10.1021/jo051227l] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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[structures: see text] A serious drawback of peptide nucleic acids (PNAs) from an application perspective that has not been adequately dealt with is nondiscrimination of identical DNA and RNA sequences. An analysis of the available X-ray and NMR solution structures of PNA complexes with DNA and RNA suggested that it might be possible to rationally impart DNA/RNA duplex binding selectivity by tuning the dihedral angle beta of the flexible ethylenediamine part of the PNA backbone (II) via suitable chemical modifications. Cyclohexanyl PNAs (chPNAs) with beta approximately = 65 degrees were designed on the basis of this rationale. The chPNAs introduced remarkable differences in duplex stabilities among their DNA and RNA complexes, with melting temperatures (deltaTm(RNA-DNA) = +16-50 degrees C) depending on the number of modifications and the stereochemistry. This is a highly significant, exceptional binding selectivity of a mix sequence of PNA to RNA over the same DNA sequence as that seen to date. In contrast, cyclopentanyl PNAs (cpPNAs) with beta approximately = 25 degrees hybridize to DNA/RNA strongly without discrimination because of the ring puckering of the cyclopentane ring. The high affinity of chPNAs to bind to RNA without losing base specificity will have immediate implications in designing improved PNAs for therapeutic and diagnostic applications.
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- T Govindaraju
- Division of Organic Chemistry (Synthesis), National Chemical Laboratory, Pune 411008, India
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Kitamatsu M, Shigeyasu M, Saitoh M, Sisido M. Configurational preference of pyrrolidine-based oxy-peptide nucleic acids as hybridization counterparts with DNA and RNA. Biopolymers 2006; 84:267-73. [PMID: 16130130 DOI: 10.1002/bip.20364] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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A new series of oxy-peptide nucleic acids (pyrrolidine-based oxy-peptide nucleic acids = POPNAs) of four different stereoisomeric forms (cis-L, cis-D, trans-L, trans-D) have been synthesized. To find a favorable stereoisomer of POPNA for hybridization with DNA or RNA, thermodynamic parameters and conformations of the hybrids between the four stereoisomers with 9 adenine bases [po(A(9))s] and dT(9) or rU(9) were investigated from ultraviolet (UV) melting curves and circular dichroism (CD) spectra. The cis-L-po(A(9)) formed the most stable hybrid with dT(9), because of the smallest entropy loss, despite the smallest enthalpy gain. In contrast, trans-L-po(A(9)) formed the most stable hybrid with rU(9), because of the largest enthalpy gain, despite the largest entropy loss. The hybrid stability of trans-L-po(A(9)) with rU(9) was significantly improved as compared with a previous version of oxy-peptide nucleic acid (OPNA) that lacks the pyrrolidine ring.
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- Mizuki Kitamatsu
- Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Faculty of Engineering, Okayama University, Japan
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Ma LJ, Zhang GL, Chen SY, Wu B, You JS, Xia CQ, Yu XQ. The first synthesis of chiral PNA monomer-cyclen conjugates. J Pept Sci 2006; 11:812-7. [PMID: 16103987 DOI: 10.1002/psc.685] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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A synthetic route to novel chiral PNA monomer-cyclen conjugates was described for the first time, the targeted products were obtained in high yields under mild reaction conditions. The preliminary results demonstrated that the uracil-PNA monomer-cyclen conjugates can rapidly bind Zn2+ in aqueous solution, and the structure of the Zn(II) complex was confirmed facilely by HRMS spectra, 1H NMR spectra and elemental analysis.
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- Li-Jian Ma
- Department of Chemistry, Key Laboratory of Green Chemistry and Technology (Ministry of Education), Sichuan University, Chengdu 610064, P. R. China
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Kumar VA, Ganesh KN. Conformationally constrained PNA analogues: structural evolution toward DNA/RNA binding selectivity. Acc Chem Res 2005; 38:404-12. [PMID: 15895978 DOI: 10.1021/ar030277e] [Citation(s) in RCA: 138] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Since its discovery 12 years ago, aminoethylglycyl peptide nucleic acid (aeg-PNA) has emerged as one of the successful DNA mimics for potential therapeutic and diagnostic applications. An important requisite for in vivo applications that has received inadequate attention is engineering PNA analogues for able discrimination between DNA and RNA as binding targets. Our approach toward this aim is based on structural preorganization of the backbone to hybridization-competent conformations to impart binding selectivity. This strategy has allowed us to design locked PNAs to achieve specific hybridization with DNA or RNA with aims to increase the binding strength without losing the binding specificity. This Account presents results of our rationale in design of different conformationally constrained PNA analogues, their synthesis, and evaluation of hybridization specificities.
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- Vaijayanti A Kumar
- Division of Organic Synthesis, National Chemical Laboratory, Pune 411008, India.
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Govindaraju T, Kumar VA, Ganesh KN. (1S,2R/1R,2S)-cis-cyclopentyl PNAs (cpPNAs) as constrained PNA analogues: synthesis and evaluation of aeg-cpPNA chimera and stereopreferences in hybridization with DNA/RNA. J Org Chem 2004; 69:5725-34. [PMID: 15307746 DOI: 10.1021/jo049442+] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Conformationally constrained chiral PNA analogues were designed on the basis of stereospecific imposition of a 1,2-cis-cyclopentyl moiety on an aminoethyl segment of aegPNA. It is known that the cyclopentane ring is a relatively flexible system in which the characteristic puckering dictates the pseudoaxial/pseudoequatorial dispositions of substituents. Hence, favorable torsional adjustments are possible to attain the necessary hybridization-competent conformations when the moiety is imposed on the conventional PNA backbone. The synthesis of the enantiomerically pure 1,2-cis-cyclopentyl PNA monomers (10a and 10b) was achieved by stereoselective enzymatic hydrolysis of a key intermediate ester 2. The chiral (1S,2R/1R,2S)-aminocyclopentylglycyl thymine monomers were incorporated into PNA oligomers at defined positions and through the entire sequence. Hybridization studies with complementary DNA and RNA sequences using UV-Tm measurements indicate that aeg-cpPNA chimera form thermally more stable complexes than aegPNA with stereochemistry-dependent selective binding of cDNA/RNA. Differential gel shift retardation was observed on hybridization of aeg-cpPNAs with complementary DNA.
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- T Govindaraju
- Division of Organic Chemistry (Synthesis), National Chemical Laboratory, Pune, 411 008, India
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Govindaraju T, Kumar VA, Ganesh KN. Synthesis and evaluation of (1S,2R/1R,2S)-aminocyclohexylglycyl PNAs as conformationally preorganized PNA analogues for DNA/RNA recognition. J Org Chem 2004; 69:1858-65. [PMID: 15058930 DOI: 10.1021/jo035747x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Conformationally constrained cis-aminocyclohexylglycyl PNAs have been designed on the basis of stereospecific imposition of 1,2-cis-cyclohexyl moieties on the aminoethyl segment of aminoethylglycyl PNA (aegPNA). The introduction of the cis-cyclohexyl ring may allow the restriction of the torsion angle beta in the ethylenediamine segment to 60-70 degrees that is prevalent in PNA(2):DNA and PNA:RNA complexes. The synthesis of the optically pure monomers (10a and 10b) is achieved by stereoselective enzymatic hydrolysis of an intermediate ester 2. The chiral PNA oligomers were synthesized with (1S,2R/1R,2S)-aminocyclohexylglycyl thymine monomers in the center and N-terminus of aegPNA. Differential gel shift retardation with one or more units of modified monomer units was observed as a result of hybridization of PNA sequences with complementary DNA sequences. Hybridization studies with complementary DNA and RNA sequences using UV-T(m) measurements indicate that PNA with (1S,2R)-cyclohexyl stereochemistry enhances selective binding with RNA over DNA as compared to control aegPNA and PNA with the other (1R,2S) isomer.
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- T Govindaraju
- Division of Organic Chemistry (Synthesis), National Chemical Laboratory, Pune 411008, India
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Vilaivan T, Suparpprom C, Duanglaor P, Harnyuttanakorn P, Lowe G. Synthesis and nucleic acid binding studies of novel pyrrolidinyl PNA carrying an N-amino-N-methylglycine spacer. Tetrahedron Lett 2003. [DOI: 10.1016/s0040-4039(03)00033-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Vilaivan T, Suparpprom C, Harnyuttanakorn P, Lowe G. Synthesis and properties of novel pyrrolidinyl PNA carrying β-amino acid spacers. Tetrahedron Lett 2001. [DOI: 10.1016/s0040-4039(01)01020-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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D'Costa M, Kumar V, Ganesh KN. Aminoethylprolyl (aep) PNA: mixed purine/pyrimidine oligomers and binding orientation preferences for PNA:DNA duplex formation. Org Lett 2001; 3:1281-4. [PMID: 11348214 DOI: 10.1021/ol015546k] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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[structure in text] The synthesis of (2S,4S)- and (2R,4S)-aepPNA monomers of adenine, guanine, and cytosine (3-5) and their incorporation at appropriate positions into aegPNA sequence 7 leads to mixed aeg-aep backbone/mixed nucleobase PNAs 8-11. The thermal stabilities of the derived duplexes with DNA are found to be dependent on nucleobase and backbone stereochemistry.
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- M D'Costa
- Division of Organic Chemistry (Synthesis), National Chemical Laboratory, Pune 411008, India
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Kumar V, Pallan PS, Meena M, Ganesh KN. Pyrrolidine nucleic acids: DNA/PNA oligomers with 2-hydroxy/aminomethyl- 4-(thymin-1-yl)pyrrolidine-N-acetic acid. Org Lett 2001; 3:1269-72. [PMID: 11348211 DOI: 10.1021/ol0069655] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Synthesis of pyrrolidine-based chiral positively charged DNA analogues is reported. The synthesis of (2S,4S) and (2R,4R) thymin-1-ylpyrrolidine-N-acetic acid, its site specific incorporation in PNA:DNA chimera and PNA, and the study of their binding properties with complementary DNA/RNA sequences is presented.
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- V Kumar
- Division of Organic Chemistry (Synthesis), National Chemical Laboratory, Pune 411008, India.
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Shigeyasu M, Kuwahara M, Sisido M, Ishikawa T. Synthesis and DNA Binding Property of a Novel Peptide Nucleic Acid that Containscis-4-Adeninyl-L-prolinol Unit. CHEM LETT 2001. [DOI: 10.1246/cl.2001.634] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Kuwahara M, Arimitsu M, Shigeyasu M, Saeki N, Sisido M. Hybridization between oxy-peptide nucleic acids and DNAs: dependence of hybrid stabilities on the chain-lengths, types of base pairs, and the chain directions. J Am Chem Soc 2001; 123:4653-8. [PMID: 11457273 DOI: 10.1021/ja003881i] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Oxy-peptide nucleic acids (OPNAs) of [-NH-CH(CH2-CH2-Base)-CH2-O-CH2-CO-]-type main chain with four different types of nucleobases (Base = A, G, C, and U) or with an abasic side group (X) were synthesized. Melting curves of the 1:1 hybrids of o(A(n))-d(Tn)) pairs with n = 6, 9, 12, and 15 showed very sharp transitions at high Tm values, particularly for long chains, indicating that nearly optimum matching is attained in the structure of the o(A(n))-d(Tn) hybrids. Effect of different types of base pairs on the hybrid stabilities was examined for the o(A4NA4)-d(T4N'T4) 1:1 mixtures where N is A, G, C, U, or X and N' is A, G, C, or T. In all series of the hybrids the complementary pairs showed the highest Tm values. The Tm values of the complementary pairs were about 35 degrees C when purine bases were inserted as the N group in the OPNA, but they were 20-23 degrees C when pyrimidine bases were inserted. The melting curves of the hybrids with a single mismatch were similar to those with a single X-N' pair, suggesting that the mismatch base pairs have been ignored in the hybrids. All complementary OPNA-DNA hybrids showed higher Tm values and sharper transitions than the corresponding DNA-DNA hybrids. The OPNA-DNA hybrids favor a parallel direction i.e., the N-terminal of OPNA is directed to the 5'-terminal of DNA.
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- M Kuwahara
- Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Faculty of Engineering, Okayama University, 3-1-1 Tsushimanaka, Okayama 700-8530, Japan
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Püschl A, Boesen T, Tedeschi T, Dahl O, Nielsen PE. Synthesis of (3R,6R)- and (3S,6R)-piperidinone PNA. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2001. [DOI: 10.1039/b103901f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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