Journal
ANALYTICAL BIOCHEMISTRY
Volume 281, Issue 1, Pages 26-35Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1006/abio.2000.4534
Keywords
homogeneous assays; PNA; peptide nucleic acid; fluorescent hybridization probe; asymmetric cyanine dye; thiazole orange
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We have constructed Light-up probes for nucleic acid detection. The Light-up probe is a peptide nucleic acid (PNA) oligonucleotide to which the asymmetric cyanine dye thiazole orange (TO) is tethered. It combines the excellent hybridization properties of PNA and the large fluorescence enhancement of TO upon binding to DNA. When the PNA hybridizes to target DNA, the dye binds and becomes fluorescent. Free probes have low fluorescence, which may increase almost 50-fold upon hybridization to complementary nucleic acid. This makes the light-up probes particularly suitable for homogeneous hybridization assays, where separation of the bound and free probe is not necessary. We find that the fluorescence enhancement upon hybridization varies among different probes, which is mainly due to variations in free probe fluorescence. For eight probes studied the fluorescence quantum yield at 25 degrees C in the unbound state ranged from 0.0015 to 0.08 and seemed to depend mainly on the PNA sequence. The binding of the light-up probes to target DNA is highly sequence specific and a single mismatch in a 10-mer target sequence was readily identified. (C) 2000 Academic Press.
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