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JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
Volume 77, Issue 1, Pages 5-16Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jo201845z
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- National Institute of General Medical Sciences, National Institutes of Health [R01 GM088697]
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Development of universal hybridization probes, that is, oligonudeotides displaying identical affinity toward matched and mismatched DNA/RNA targets, has been a longstanding goal due to potential applications as degenerate PCR primers and microarray probes. The classic approach toward this end has been the use of universal bases that either are based on hydrogen-bonding purine derivatives or aromatic base analogues without hydrogen-bonding capabilities. However, development of probes that result in truly universal hybridization without compromising duplex thermostability has proven challenging. Here we have used the click reaction to synthesize four C2'-pyrenefunctionalized triazole-linked 2'-deoxyuridine phosphoramidites. We demonstrate that oligodeoxyribonucleotides modified with the corresponding monomers display (a) minimally decreased thermal affinity toward DNA/RNA complements relative to reference strands, (b) highly robust universal hybridization characteristics (average differences in thermal denaturation temperatures of matched vs mismatched duplexes involving monomer W are <1.7 degrees C), and (c) exceptional affinity toward DNA targets containing abasic sites opposite of the modification site (Delta T-m up to +25 degrees C). The latter observation, along with results from absorption and fluorescence spectroscopy, suggests that the pyrene moiety is intercalating into the duplex whereby the opposing nucleotide is pushed into an extrahelical position. These properties render C2'-pyrene-functionalized triazole-linked DNA as promising universal hybridization probes for applications in nucleic acid chemistry and biotechnology.
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