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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
卷 135, 期 1, 页码 242-251出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/ja308629w
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- U.S. National Institutes of Health [U54 RR022241]
- NSF [CHE-0130903, DBI-9729351]
The cyanine dye thiazole orange (TO) is a well-known fluorogenic stain for DNA and RNA, but this property precludes its use as an intracellular fluorescent probe for non-nucleic acid biomolecules. Further, as is the case with many cyanines, the dye suffers from low photostability. Here, we report the synthesis of a bridge-substituted version of TO named alpha-CN-TO, where the central methine hydrogen of TO is replaced by an electron withdrawing cyano group, which was expected to decrease the susceptibility of the dye toward singlet oxygen-mediated degradation. An X-ray crystal structure shows that alpha-CN-TO is twisted drastically out of plane, in contrast to TO, which crystallizes in the planar conformation. alpha-CN-TO retains the fluorogenic behavior of the parent dye TO in viscous glycerol/water solvent, but direct irradiation and indirect bleaching studies showed that alpha-CN-TO is essentially inert to visible light and singlet oxygen. In addition, the twisted conformation of alpha-CN-TO mitigates nonspecific binding and fluorescence activation by DNA and a previously selected TO-binding protein and exhibits low background fluorescence in HeLa cell culture. alpha-CN-TO was then used to select a new protein that binds and activates fluorescence from the dye. The new alpha-CN-TO/protein fluoromodule exhibits superior photostability to an analogous TO/protein fluoromodule. These properties indicate that alpha-CN-TO will be a useful fluorogenic dye in combination with specific RNA and protein binding partners for both in vitro and cell-based applications. More broadly, structural features that promote nonplanar conformations can provide an effective method for reducing nonspecific binding of cationic dyes to nucleic acids and other biomolecules.
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