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Bis‐Pyrene‐Modified Unlocked Nucleic Acids: Synthesis, Hybridization Studies, and Fluorescent Properties
Author(s) -
Perlíková Pavla,
Ejlersen Maria,
Langkjær Niels,
Wengel Jesper
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
chemmedchem
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.817
H-Index - 100
eISSN - 1860-7187
pISSN - 1860-7179
DOI - 10.1002/cmdc.201402185
Subject(s) - pyrene , oligonucleotide , chemistry , monomer , dna , duplex (building) , fluorescence , nucleic acid , excimer , uracil , stereochemistry , photochemistry , biochemistry , organic chemistry , polymer , physics , quantum mechanics
Efficient synthesis of a building block for the incorporation of a bis‐pyrene‐modified unlocked nucleic acid (UNA) into oligonucleotides (DNA*) was developed. The presence of bis‐pyrene‐modified UNA within a duplex leads to duplex destabilization that is more profound in DNA*/RNA and less distinct in DNA*/DNA duplexes. Nevertheless, the destabilization effect of bis‐pyrene‐modified UNA is weaker than that of unmodified UNA. Some oligonucleotides with bis‐pyrene‐modified UNA incorporations displayed superior mismatch discrimination capabilities. UV/Vis absorption and molecular modeling studies indicate that the pyrene groups of bis‐pyrene‐modified UNA are located in the major groove of a duplex. Oligonucleotides containing two bis‐pyrene‐modified UNA monomers showed low pyrene monomer emission in bulge‐containing duplexes, high pyrene monomer emission in fully matched duplexes, and 5‐(pyrenyl)uracil:pyrene exciplex emission in the single‐stranded form. Such fluorescent properties enable the application of bis‐pyrene‐modified UNA in the development of fluorescence probes for DNA/RNA detection and for detection of deletions at specific positions.