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ORGANIC & BIOMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY
Volume 12, Issue 37, Pages 7366-7374Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c4ob01095g
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- Icelandic Research Fund [110035022]
- University of Iceland Research Fund
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Non-covalent and site-directed spin labeling gives easy access to spin-labeled nucleic acids for the study of their structure and dynamics by electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy. In a search for improved spin labels for non-covalent binding to abasic sites in duplex DNA and RNA, ten pyrimidine-derived spin labels were prepared in good yields and their binding was evaluated by continuous wave (CW)-EPR spectroscopy. Most of the spin labels showed lower binding affinity than the previously reported label c towards abasic sites in DNA and RNA. The most promising labels were triazole-linked spin labels and a pyrrolocytosine label. In particular, the N1-ethylamino derivative of a triazole-linked uracil spin label binds fully to both DNA and RNA containing an abasic site. This is the first example of a spin label that binds fully through non-covalent interactions with an abasic site in RNA.
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