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NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH
卷 41, 期 1, 页码 220-228出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gks975
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- Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation through the Grand Challenges in Global Health initiative
- Div Of Molecular and Cellular Bioscience
- Direct For Biological Sciences [1062144] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
Quadruplexes are involved in the regulation of gene expression and are part of telomeres at the ends of chromosomes. In addition, they are useful in therapeutic and biotechnological applications, including nucleic acid diagnostics. In the presence of K+ ions, two 15-mer sequences d(GGTTGGTGTGGTTGG) (thrombin binding aptamer) and d(GGGTGGGTGGGTGGG) (G3T) fold into antiparallel and parallel quadruplexes, respectively. In the present study, we measured the fluorescence intensity of one or more 2-aminopurine or 6-methylisoxanthopterin base analogs incorporated at loop-positions of quadruplex forming sequences to develop a detection method for DNA sequences in solution. Before quadruplex formation, the fluorescence is efficiently quenched in all cases. Remarkably, G3T quadruplex formation results in emission of fluorescence equal to that of a free base in all three positions. In the case of thrombin binding aptamer, the emission intensity depends on the location of the fluorescent nucleotides. Circular dichroism studies demonstrate that the modifications do not change the overall secondary structure, whereas thermal unfolding experiments revealed that fluorescent analogs significantly destabilize the quadruplexes. Overall, these studies suggest that quadruplexes containing fluorescent nucleotide analogs are useful tools in the development of novel DNA detection methodologies.
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