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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 137, Issue 40, Pages 12756-12759Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jacs.5b07286
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- Department of Defense Army Research Office [W911NF-13-1-0383]
- National Science Foundation [DGE-1144086]
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We demonstrate the site-specific incorporation of nucleobase derivatives bearing fluorophores or affinity labels into a short RNA stem loop recognition motif by exchange of a guanine residue. The RNA-TAG (transglycosylation at guanosine) is carried out by a bacterial (E. coli) tRNA guanine transglycosylase (TGT), whose natural substrate is the nitrogenous base PreQ(1). Remarkably, we have successfully incorporated large functional groups including biotin, BODIPY, thiazole orange, and Cy7 through a polyethylene glycol linker attached to the exocyclic amine of PreQ(1). Larger RNAs, such as mRNA transcripts, can be site-specifically labeled if they possess the 17-nucleotide hairpin recognition motif: The RNA-TAG methodology could facilitate the detection and manipulation of RNA molecules by enabling the direct incorporation of functional artificial nudeobases using a simple hairpin recognition element.
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