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JOURNAL OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY
Volume 71, Issue 1, Pages 14-21Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jo051227l
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A serious drawback of peptide nucleic acids (PNAs) from an application perspective that has not been adequately dealt with is nondiscrimination of identical DNA and RNA sequences. An analysis of the available X-ray and NMR solution structures of PNA complexes with DNA and RNA suggested that it might be possible to rationally impart DNA/RNA duplex binding selectivity by tuning the dihedral angle beta of the flexible ethylenediamine part of the PNA backbone (11) via suitable chemical modifications. Cyclohexanyl PNAs (chPNAs) with beta approximate to 65 degrees were designed on the basis of this rationale. The chPNAs introduced remarkable differences in duplex stabilities among their DNA and RNA complexes, with melting temperatures (Delta T-m (RNA-DNA) = +16-50 degrees C)depending on the number of modifications and the stereochemistry. This is a highly significant, exceptional binding selectivity of a mix sequence in of PNA to RNA over the same DNA sequence as that seen to date. In contrast, cyclopentanyl PNAs (cpPNAs) with beta approximate to 25 degrees hybridize to DNA/RNA strongly without discrimination because of the ring puckering of the cyclopentane ring. The high affinity of chPNAs to bind to RNA without losing base specificity will have immediate implications in designing improved PNAs for therapeutic and diagnostic applications.
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