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BIOCHEMISTRY
Volume 46, Issue 40, Pages 11240-11252Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/bi700580y
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- NIBIB NIH HHS [R01 EB003922, R01 EB003922-01A2] Funding Source: Medline
- NIDDK NIH HHS [R01 DK064633] Funding Source: Medline
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We have previously demonstrated site-specific delivery of antiparallel phosphorothiciate triplex forming oliconucleotide (TFO) specific to -165 to -141 promoter region of alpha l(l) collagen (abbreviated as APS 165) to hepatic stellate cells (HSCs) of fibrotic rats after conjugation with mannose 6-phosphate-bovine serum albumin. However, we still need to determine whether there is correlation between transcription inhibition and triplex formation with genomic DNA. In this study, APS165 was modified with psoralen and the extent of triplex formation with alpha l(I) collagen DNA was determined in naked genomic DNA, isolated nuclei of HSC-T6 cells and whole cells by using a simple real-time PCR based method. In this method, a purification step was added to remove unbound APS 165, which eliminated the possible artifacts during real-time PCR. Psoralen photoadduct formation was shown to be essential to retain triplex structure under denaturing conditions. On naked genomic DNA, 82.2% of DNA formed triplex and 36.7% of genomic DNA in isolated nuclei at 90 min contained triplex structure. As quantified by real-time PCR, 50% of genomic DNA in living cells at 12 h postincubation contained triplex structures. Furthermore, the triplex formation was dose-dependent with 26.5% and 50% of DNA having triplex structure at concentrations of I mu M and 5 mu M, respectively. Moreover, on a plasmid pCol-CAT220 containing rat alpha l(I) gene promoter (-225 to +113), 75.3% of triplex formation was observed, which was correlated with a 73.6% of transcription inhibition. These findings will further strengthen the therapeutic applications of APS165.
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