Journal
CHEMBIOCHEM
Volume 5, Issue 7, Pages 958-963Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/cbic.200400010
Keywords
DNA; fluorescence resonance energy transfer; fluorescent probes; nucleobases; single-nucleotide polymorphism
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We report on a new method for the detection of a base at a specific site in a DNA sequence by monitoring the fluorescence emission of fluorescein. To achieve this goal, we developed a new base-discriminating fluorescent (BDF) nucleobase, naphthodeazaadenine ((ND)A). The fluorescence spectrum of the duplex possessing a cytosine base as a complementary base of (ND)A showed a fluorescence peak at 383 nm when using an excitation wavelength of 350 nm. When the complementary base of (ND)A was one of the other bases, the fluorescence intensity was very low. The fluorescence emission spectrum of (ND)A overlapped with the fluorescence excitation spectrum of fluorescein in the wavelength range of 400-500 nm. Thus, we designed FRET-BDF probe containing (ND)A as the FRET donor and fluorescein as the acceptor The interaction of these two fluorophores, which are separated by defined base pairs, allowed an efficient energy transfer that resulted in a dominant fluorescence emission of fluorescein at 520 nm when using an excitation wavelength of 350 nm. Fluorescence emission from FRET-BDF probes was observed only when the complementary base of (ND)A is C, thus achieving a clear distinction of a C base on the complementary DNA strand. However, the general utility of our method is limited due to the quenching of the (ND)A fluorescence by a G/C base pair flanking (ND)A.
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