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Akiyoshi Hirata1, Kiyoshi Nokihara, Yusuke Kawamoto, Toshikazu Bando, Asuka Sasaki, Satoru Ide, Kazuhiro Maeshima, Takeshi Kasama, Hiroshi Sugiyama.
Abstract
A polyamide containing N-methylpyrrole (Py) and N-methylimidazole (Im), designated PIPA, binds with high affinity and specificity to specific nucleotide sequences in the minor groove of double-helical DNA. Based on a recent report of the synthesis of PIPA for telomere visualization, the present paper focused on the size of the connecting part (hinge region) of two PIPA segments of the tandem hairpin PIPA, Dab(Im-Im-Py)-Py-Py-Py-Im-[Hinge]-Dab(Im-Im-Py)-Py-Py-Py-Im-βAla-NH(CH2)3N(CH3)-(CH2)3NH-[Dye]. The present paper also describes the characterization of binding by measuring the thermal melting temperature and surface plasmon resonance and by specific staining of telomeres (TTAGGG)n in human cells. Microheterogeneity was also investigated by high-resolution mass spectrometry. We found that the optimal compound as the hinge segment for telomere staining was [-NH(C2H4O)2(C2H4)CO-] with tetramethylrhodamine as the fluorescent dye.Entities:
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Year: 2014 PMID： 25036716 DOI： 10.1021/ja506058e
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Am Chem Soc ISSN： 0002-7863 Impact factor: 15.419