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CHEMISTRY-A EUROPEAN JOURNAL
Volume 18, Issue 1, Pages 355-364Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/chem.201101458
Keywords
oligonucleotides; peptides; photocrosslinking; ruthenium; TAP
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- Belgian Science Policy [P6/27]
- FRFC-FNRS [2.4.519.08, 2.4.626.05, 2.4.506.10, 2.4.642.08]
- FNRS
- IAP-PAI
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RuIITAP complexes have been shown to be very attractive compounds in the frame of developments of new anticancer drugs targeting the genetic material. This increasing interest originates from observations of covalent bond formations, triggered by photo-induced electron transfer (PET) between RuIITAP complexes and guanine bases of DNA. This photoreaction has recently been extended to the tryptophan (Trp) amino acid for future applications involving peptides. Thus, a double photo-addition of Trp residues of peptides on RuII complexes is demonstrated by mass spectrometry with some structural issues. Such bi-adduct formations offer the possibility of photocrosslinking two Trp-containing biomolecules, which is investigated in this study. Thus, photocrosslinking between two complementary oligonucleotides (ODNs) derivatized by Trp-containing tripeptides is demonstrated by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (PAGE) in the presence of RuIITAP complexes. Both PAGE and MS indicate that such photocrosslinkings arise from two reaction pathways: either via the double addition of Trp residues on the Ru complex or from dimerization of Trp radicals. The competition between these two pathways depends on the experimental conditions. Heterobridgings between guanine bases and tryptophan residues mediated by RuIITAP complexes is also examined, opening the way to ODNpeptide photocrosslinkings.
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