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Inside Cover: A Cationic Dye Triplet as a Unique “Glue” That Can Connect Fully Matched Termini of DNA Duplexes (Chem. Eur. J. 9/2011)
Author(s) -
Kashida Hiromu,
Hayashi Takamitsu,
Fujii Taiga,
Asanuma Hiroyuki
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
chemistry – a european journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.687
H-Index - 242
eISSN - 1521-3765
pISSN - 0947-6539
DOI - 10.1002/chem.201190040
Subject(s) - cationic polymerization , glue , stacking , duplex (building) , dimer , base pair , dna , chemistry , intermolecular force , crystallography , stereochemistry , materials science , polymer chemistry , biochemistry , molecule , composite material , organic chemistry
A unique “glue” composed of cationic p ‐methylstilbazole tethered on D ‐threoninols connects DNA duplexes by intermolecular clustering. When the “glue” is attached to the 5′ terminus of a DNA duplex, a dimer of the duplex is formed. Interestingly, the “glue” is more stable than native sticky ends and strongly responds to the stacking interaction with the neighboring base pair. For further details, see the Full Paper by H. Asanuma et al. on page 2614 ff. The yellow bottle in the picture represents traditional Japanese glue ( Nori ).