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Ishizuka T, Yoshida J, Yamamoto Y, Sumaoka J, Tedeschi T, Corradini R, Sforza S, Komiyama M. Chiral introduction of positive charges to PNA for double-duplex invasion to versatile sequences. Nucleic Acids Res 2008; 36:1464-71. [PMID: 18203747 PMCID: PMC2275137 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkm1154] [Citation(s) in RCA: 73] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/12/2007] [Revised: 12/12/2007] [Accepted: 12/12/2007] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Invasion of two PNA strands to double-stranded DNA is one of the most promising methods to recognize a predetermined site in double-stranded DNA (PNA = peptide nucleic acid). In order to facilitate this 'double-duplex invasion', a new type of PNA was prepared by using chiral PNA monomers in which a nucleobase was bound to the alpha-nitrogen of N-(2-aminoethyl)-d-lysine. These positively charged monomer units, introduced to defined positions in Nielsen's PNAs (poly[N-(2-aminoethyl)glycine] derivatives), promoted the invasion without impairing mismatch-recognizing activity. When pseudo-complementary nucleobases 2,6-diaminopurine and 2-thiouracil were bound to N-(2-aminoethyl)-d-lysine, the invasion successfully occurred even at highly G-C-rich regions [e.g. (G/C)7(A/T)3 and (G/C)8(A/T)2] which were otherwise hardly targeted. Thus, the scope of sequences available as the target site has been greatly expanded. In contrast with the promotion by the chiral PNA monomers derived from N-(2-aminoethyl)-d-lysine, their l-isomers hardly invaded, showing crucial importance of the d-chirality. The promotion of double-duplex invasion by the chiral (d) PNA monomer units was ascribed to both destabilization of PNA/PNA duplex and stabilization of PNA/DNA duplexes.
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- Takumi Ishizuka
- Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, 4-6-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, 153-8904 Japan and Department of Organic and Industrial Chemistry, University of Parma, Viale G.P. Usberti 17/a, University Campus, Parma, I-43100 Italy
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- Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, 4-6-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, 153-8904 Japan and Department of Organic and Industrial Chemistry, University of Parma, Viale G.P. Usberti 17/a, University Campus, Parma, I-43100 Italy
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- Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, 4-6-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, 153-8904 Japan and Department of Organic and Industrial Chemistry, University of Parma, Viale G.P. Usberti 17/a, University Campus, Parma, I-43100 Italy
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- Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, 4-6-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, 153-8904 Japan and Department of Organic and Industrial Chemistry, University of Parma, Viale G.P. Usberti 17/a, University Campus, Parma, I-43100 Italy
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- Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, 4-6-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, 153-8904 Japan and Department of Organic and Industrial Chemistry, University of Parma, Viale G.P. Usberti 17/a, University Campus, Parma, I-43100 Italy
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- Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, 4-6-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, 153-8904 Japan and Department of Organic and Industrial Chemistry, University of Parma, Viale G.P. Usberti 17/a, University Campus, Parma, I-43100 Italy
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- Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, 4-6-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, 153-8904 Japan and Department of Organic and Industrial Chemistry, University of Parma, Viale G.P. Usberti 17/a, University Campus, Parma, I-43100 Italy
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- Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, 4-6-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, 153-8904 Japan and Department of Organic and Industrial Chemistry, University of Parma, Viale G.P. Usberti 17/a, University Campus, Parma, I-43100 Italy
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Rapireddy S, He G, Roy S, Armitage BA, Ly DH. Strand invasion of mixed-sequence B-DNA by acridine-linked, gamma-peptide nucleic acid (gamma-PNA). J Am Chem Soc 2007; 129:15596-600. [PMID: 18027941 DOI: 10.1021/ja074886j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 81] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Peptide nucleic acid (PNA) is a synthetic mimic of DNA and RNA that can recognize double-stranded B-DNA through direct Watson-Crick base-pairing. Although promising, PNA recognition is presently limited to mostly purine- and pyrimidine-rich targets, because mixed-sequence PNA, in general, does not have sufficient binding free energy to invade B-DNA. In this Article, we show that conformationally preorganized gamma-peptide nucleic acid (gamma-PNA) containing an acridine moiety covalently linked at the C-terminus can invade mixed-sequence B-DNA in a sequence-specific manner. Recognition occurs through direct Watson-Crick base-pairing. This finding is significant because it demonstrates that the same principles that guide the recognition of single-stranded DNA and RNA can also be applied to double-stranded B-DNA.
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- Srinivas Rapireddy
- Department of Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon University, 4400 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, USA
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Kim KH, Nielsen PE, Glazer PM. Site-directed gene mutation at mixed sequence targets by psoralen-conjugated pseudo-complementary peptide nucleic acids. Nucleic Acids Res 2007; 35:7604-13. [PMID: 17977869 PMCID: PMC2190703 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkm666] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Sequence-specific DNA-binding molecules such as triple helix-forming oligonucleotides (TFOs) provide a means for inducing site-specific mutagenesis and recombination at chromosomal sites in mammalian cells. However, the utility of TFOs is limited by the requirement for homopurine stretches in the target duplex DNA. Here, we report the use of pseudo-complementary peptide nucleic acids (pcPNAs) for intracellular gene targeting at mixed sequence sites. Due to steric hindrance, pcPNAs are unable to form pcPNA–pcPNA duplexes but can bind to complementary DNA sequences by Watson–Crick pairing via double duplex-invasion complex formation. We show that psoralen-conjugated pcPNAs can deliver site-specific photoadducts and mediate targeted gene modification within both episomal and chromosomal DNA in mammalian cells without detectable off-target effects. Most of the induced psoralen-pcPNA mutations were single-base substitutions and deletions at the predicted pcPNA-binding sites. The pcPNA-directed mutagenesis was found to be dependent on PNA concentration and UVA dose and required matched pairs of pcPNAs. Neither of the individual pcPNAs alone had any effect nor did complementary PNA pairs of the same sequence. These results identify pcPNAs as new tools for site-specific gene modification in mammalian cells without purine sequence restriction, thereby providing a general strategy for designing gene targeting molecules.
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- Ki-Hyun Kim
- Department of Therapeutic Radiology, Yale University School of Medicine, P.O. Box 208040, New Haven, CT 06520-8040, USA
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Pensato S, Saviano M, Romanelli A. New peptide nucleic acid analogues: synthesis and applications. Expert Opin Biol Ther 2007; 7:1219-32. [PMID: 17696820 DOI: 10.1517/14712598.7.8.1219] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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Peptide nucleic acids are oligonucleotide mimics characterised by high chemical and enzymatic stability, high specificity and affinity toward complementary DNA/RNA. The lack of charge and polar groups in the backbone decrease their solubility in aqueous environment and their ability to cross cell membranes, reducing their performance in in vivo applications. To improve solubility, increase affinity and specificity of binding and to control recognition between nucleic acids, several analogues bearing modifications on the nucleobase, nucleobase-backbone linker and on the backbone were synthesised. This paper describes the synthesis and applications of Peptide nucleic acid analogues and discusses the potential of analogues for which no application is reported.
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- Soccorsa Pensato
- Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Dipartimento delle Scienze Biologiche, Facoltà di Scienze Biotecnologiche, Napoli, Italy
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Fujimoto K, Matsuda S, Yoshimura Y, Ami T, Saito I. Reversible photopadlocking on double-stranded DNA. Chem Commun (Camb) 2007:2968-70. [PMID: 17622447 DOI: 10.1039/b707524c] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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We describe a highly efficient method for reversible photocircularization of oligonucleotide (ODN) on a double-stranded DNA template: 5-carboxyvinyl-2'-deoxyuridine-containing ODN was reversibly circularized around the target sequence of the double-stranded plasmid DNA resulting in formation of a catenated plasmid.
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- Kenzo Fujimoto
- School of Materials Science, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Ishikawa, 923-1292, Japan.
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Yamamoto Y, Mori M, Aiba Y, Tomita T, Chen W, Zhou JM, Uehara A, Ren Y, Kitamura Y, Komiyama M. Chemical modification of Ce(IV)/EDTA-based artificial restriction DNA cutter for versatile manipulation of double-stranded DNA. Nucleic Acids Res 2007; 35:e53. [PMID: 17376805 PMCID: PMC1874645 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkm052] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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A monophosphate group was attached to the terminus of pseudo-complementary peptide nucleic acid (pcPNA), and two of thus modified pcPNAs were combined with Ce(IV)/EDTA for site-selective hydrolysis of double-stranded DNA. The site-selective DNA scission was notably accelerated by this chemical modification of pcPNAs. These second-generation artificial restriction DNA cutters (ARCUTs) differentiated the target sequence so strictly that no scission occurred even when only one DNA base-pair was altered to another. By using two of the activated ARCUTs simultaneously, DNA substrate was selectively cut at two predetermined sites, and the desired fragment was clipped and cloned. The DNA scission by ARCUT was also successful even when the target site was methylated by methyltransferase and protected from the corresponding restriction enzyme. Furthermore, potentiality of ARCUT for manipulation of huge DNA has been substantiated by site-selective scission of genomic DNA of Escherichia coli (composed of 4,600,000 bp) at the target site. All these results indicate promising applications of ARCUTs for versatile purposes.
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- *To whom correspondence should be addressed. +81 3 5452 5200+81 3 5452 5209
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Majumder P, Pradhan SK, Devi PG, Pal S, Dasgupta D. Chromatin as a target for the DNA-binding anticancer drugs. Subcell Biochem 2007; 41:145-89. [PMID: 17484128 PMCID: PMC7121056 DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-5466-1_8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/15/2023]
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Chemotherapy has been a major approach to treat cancer. Both constituents of chromatin, chromosomal DNA and the associated chromosomal histone proteins are the molecular targets of the anticancer drugs. Small DNA binding ligands, which inhibit enzymatic processes with DNA substrate, are well known in cancer chemotherapy. These drugs inhibit the polymerase and topoisomerase activity. With the advent in the knowledge of chromatin chemistry and biology, attempts have shifted from studies of the structural basis of the association of these drugs or small ligands (with the potential of drugs) with DNA to their association with chromatin and nucleosome. These drugs often inhibit the expression of specific genes leading to a series of biochemical events. An overview will be given about the latest understanding of the molecular basis of their action. We shall restrict to those drugs, synthetic or natural, whose prime cellular targets are so far known to be chromosomal DNA.
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- Parijat Majumder
- Biophysics Division, Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Block-AF, Sector-I, Bidhannagar, Kolkata-700 064, India
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Topham CM, Smith JC. Orientation preferences of backbone secondary amide functional groups in peptide nucleic acid complexes: quantum chemical calculations reveal an intrinsic preference of cationic D-amino acid-based chiral PNA analogues for the P-form. Biophys J 2006; 92:769-86. [PMID: 17071666 PMCID: PMC1779963 DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.105.079723] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Geometric descriptions of nonideal interresidue hydrogen bonding and backbone-base water bridging in the minor groove are established in terms of polyamide backbone carbonyl group orientation from analyses of residue junction conformers in experimentally determined peptide nucleic acid (PNA) complexes. Two types of interresidue hydrogen bonding are identified in PNA conformers in heteroduplexes with nucleic acids that adopt A-like basepair stacking. Quantum chemical calculations on the binding of a water molecule to an O2 base atom in glycine-based PNA thymine dimers indicate that junctions modeled with P-form backbone conformations are lower in energy than a dimer comprising the predominant conformation observed in A-like helices. It is further shown in model systems that PNA analogs based on D-lysine are better able to preorganize in a conformation exclusive to P-form helices than is glycine-based PNA. An intrinsic preference for this conformation is also exhibited by positively charged chiral PNA dimers carrying 3-amino-D-alanine or 4-aza-D-leucine residue units that provide for additional rigidity by side-chain hydrogen bonding to the backbone carbonyl oxygen. Structural modifications stabilizing P-form helices may obviate the need for large heterocycles to target DNA pyrimidine bases via PNA.DNA-PNA triplex formation. Quantum chemical modeling methods are used to propose candidate PNA Hoogsteen strand designs.
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- Christopher M Topham
- Institut de Pharmacologie et de Biologie Structurale, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique UMR 5089, Toulouse, France.
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Yamamoto Y, Uehara A, Watanabe A, Aburatani H, Komiyama M. Chemical-reaction-based site-selective DNA cutter for PCR-free gene manipulation. Chembiochem 2006; 7:673-7. [PMID: 16491499 DOI: 10.1002/cbic.200500402] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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An artificial restriction DNA cutter (ARCUT), recently developed by the authors, was used to construct a fusion protein. The gene of WW-domain-containing oxidoreductase (WWOX) was cut by ARCUT just before its stop codon, and ligated to fuse the gene of enhanced green fluorescent protein (EGFP). The reading frames of two genes were adjusted to coincide each other. Throughout the manipulation, no PCR was employed. The fluorescent fusion protein was successfully expressed in mammalian cells, and showed entirely different subcellular localization from EGFP itself. Apparently, the DNA was kept completely intact during the manipulation. The man-made tool ARCUT has promising features for future biotechnology and molecular biology.
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- Yoji Yamamoto
- Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Tokyo, 4-6-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo, 153-8904, Japan
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Zhou P, Dragulescu-Andrasi A, Bhattacharya B, O'Keefe H, Vatta P, Hyldig-Nielsen JJ, Ly DH. Synthesis of cell-permeable peptide nucleic acids and characterization of their hybridization and uptake properties. Bioorg Med Chem Lett 2006; 16:4931-5. [PMID: 16809033 DOI: 10.1016/j.bmcl.2006.06.052] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/16/2006] [Revised: 06/13/2006] [Accepted: 06/14/2006] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Guanidine-based peptide nucleic acid (GPNA) monomers and oligomers containing all four natural (adenine (A), cytosine (C), guanine (G), and thymine (T)) and two unnatural (2-thiouracil (sU) and 2,6-diaminopurine (D)) nucleobases have been synthesized. Thermal denaturation study showed that GPNA oligomers containing alternate D-backbone configuration bind sequence-specifically to DNA and, when incubated with mammalian cells, localized specifically to the endoplasmic reticulum (ER).
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- Peng Zhou
- Department of Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon University, 4400 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
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Karkare S, Bhatnagar D. Promising nucleic acid analogs and mimics: characteristic features and applications of PNA, LNA, and morpholino. Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 2006; 71:575-86. [PMID: 16683135 DOI: 10.1007/s00253-006-0434-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 136] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/20/2005] [Revised: 03/22/2006] [Accepted: 03/24/2006] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Nucleic acid analogs and mimics are commonly the modifications of native nucleic acids at the nucleobase, the sugar ring, or the phosphodiester backbone. Many forms of promising nucleic acid analogs and mimics are available, such as locked nucleic acids (LNAs), peptide nucleic acids (PNAs), and morpholinos. LNAs, PNAs, and morpholinos can form both duplexes and triplexes and have improved biostability. They have become a general and versatile tool for DNA and RNA recognition. LNA is a general and versatile tool for specific, high-affinity recognition of single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) and single-stranded RNA (ssRNA). LNA can be used for designing LNA oligoes for hybridization studies or as real time polymerase chain reaction probes in the form of Taqman probes. LNA also has therapeutic and diagnostic applications. PNA is another type of DNA analog with neutral charge. The extreme stability of PNA makes it an ideal candidate for the antisense and antigene application. PNA is used as probe for gene cloning, mutation detection, and in homologous recombination studies. It was also used to design transcription factor decoy molecules for target gene induction. Morpholino, another structural type, was devised to circumvent cost problems associated with DNA analogs. It has become the premier knockdown tool in developmental biology due to its cytosolic delivery in the embryos by microinjection. Thus, the nucleic acid analogs provide an advantage to design and implementation, therapies, and research assays, which were not implemented due to limitations associated with standard nucleic acids chemistry.
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- Shantanu Karkare
- Apticraft Systems (P) Ltd. 142, Electronics Complex, Indore, 452010, India.
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Coma S, Noé V, Eritja R, Ciudad CJ. Strand displacement of double-stranded DNA by triplex-forming antiparallel purine-hairpins. Oligonucleotides 2006; 15:269-83. [PMID: 16396621 DOI: 10.1089/oli.2005.15.269] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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We characterize the binding affinity and the thermodynamics of hybridization of triplex-forming antiparallel purine-hairpins composed of two antiparallel purine domains linked by a loop directed toward single-stranded and double-stranded DNA (ssDNA, dsDNA). Gel retardation assays and melting experiments reveal that a 13-mer purine-hairpin binds specifically and with a K ( d ) of 8 x 10(8) M to polypyrimidine ssDNA to form a triple helical structure. Remarkably, we show that purine-hairpins also bind polypurine/polypyrimidine stretches included in a dsDNA of several hundred bp in length. Binding of purine-hairpins to dsDNA occurs by triplex formation with the polypyrimidine strand, causing displacement of the polypurine strand. Because triplex formation is restricted to polypurine/polypyrimidine stretches of dsDNA, we studied the triplex formation between purine-hairpins and polypyrimidine targets containing purine interruptions. We found that an 11-mer purine-hairpin with an adenine opposite to a guanine interruption in the polypyrimidine track binds to ssDNA and dsDNA, allowing expansion of the possible target sites and increase in the length of purine-hairpins. Thus, when using a 20-mer purine-hairpin targeting an interruption-containing polypyrimidine target, the binding affinity is increased compared to its 13-mer antiparallel purine-hairpin counterpart. Surprisingly, this increase is much more pronounced than that observed for a tail-clamp purine-hairpin extended up to 20 nt in the Watson-Crick domain only. Thus, triplexforming antiparallel purine-hairpins can be a potentially useful strategy for both single-strand and double-strand nucleic acid recognition.
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- Silvia Coma
- Department of Biochemistry, School of Pharmacy, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
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Lundin KE, Good L, Strömberg R, Gräslund A, Smith CIE. Biological activity and biotechnological aspects of peptide nucleic acid. ADVANCES IN GENETICS 2006; 56:1-51. [PMID: 16735154 DOI: 10.1016/s0065-2660(06)56001-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 88] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/08/2023]
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During the latest decades a number of different nucleic acid analogs containing natural nucleobases on a modified backbone have been synthesized. An example of this is peptide nucleic acid (PNA), a DNA mimic with a noncyclic peptide-like backbone, which was first synthesized in 1991. Owing to its flexible and neutral backbone PNA displays very good hybridization properties also at low-ion concentrations and has subsequently attracted large interest both in biotechnology and biomedicine. Numerous modifications have been made, which could be of value for particular settings. However, the original PNA does so far perform well in many diverse applications. The high biostability makes it interesting for in vivo use, although the very limited diffusion over lipid membranes requires further modifications in order to make it suitable for treatment in eukaryotic cells. The possibility to use this nucleic acid analog for gene regulation and gene editing is discussed. Peptide nucleic acid is now also used for specific genetic detection in a number of diagnostic techniques, as well as for site-specific labeling and hybridization of functional molecules to both DNA and RNA, areas that are also discussed in this chapter.
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- Karin E Lundin
- Department of Laboratory Medicine, Clinical Research Center Karolinska Institutet, Karolinska University Hospital, Huddinge 141 86 Stockholm, Sweden
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Filichev VV, Vester B, Hansen LH, Pedersen EB. Easily denaturing nucleic acids derived from intercalating nucleic acids: thermal stability studies, dual duplex invasion and inhibition of transcription start. Nucleic Acids Res 2005; 33:7129-37. [PMID: 16377781 PMCID: PMC1322271 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gki1019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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The bulged insertions of (R)-1-O-(pyren-1-ylmethyl)glycerol (monomer P) in two complementary 8mer DNA strands (intercalating nucleic acids) opposite to each other resulted in the formation of an easily denaturing duplex, which had lower thermal stability (21.0 degrees C) than the wild-type double-stranded DNA (dsDNA, 26.0 degrees C), but both modified oligodeoxynucleotides had increased binding affinity toward complementary single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) (41.5 and 39.0 degrees C). Zipping of pyrene moieties in an easily denaturing duplex gave formation of a strong excimer band at 480 nm upon excitation at 343 nm in the steady-state fluorescence spectra. The excimer band disappeared upon addition of a similar short dsDNA, but remained when adding a 128mer dsDNA containing the same sequence. When P was inserted into 2'-OMe-RNA strands, the duplex with zipping P was found to be more stable (42.0 degrees C) than duplexes with the complementary ssDNAs (31.5 and 19.5 degrees C). The excimer band observed in the ds2'-OMe-RNA with zipping P had marginal changes upon addition of both 8 and 128mer dsDNA. Synthesized oligonucleotides were tested in a transcriptional inhibition assay for targeting of the open complex formed by Escherichia coli RNA polymerase with the lac UV-5 promoter using the above mentioned 128mer dsDNA. Inhibition of transcription was observed for 8mer DNAs possessing pyrene intercalators and designed to target both template and non-template DNA strands within the open complex. The observed inhibition was partly a result of unspecific binding of the modified DNAs to the RNA polymerase. Furthermore, the addition of 8mer DNA with three bulged insertions of P designed to be complementary to the template strand at the +36 to +43 position downstream of the transcription start resulted in a specific halt of transcription producing a truncated RNA transcript. This is to our knowledge the first report of an RNA elongation stop mediated by a small DNA sequence possessing intercalators. The insertions of P opposite to each other in ds2'-OMe-RNA showed inhibition efficiency of 96% compared with 25% for unmodified ds2'-OMe-RNA.
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- Vyacheslav V Filichev
- Department of Chemistry, Nucleic Acid Center, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, DK-5230 Odense M, Denmark.
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Eisenschmidt K, Lanio T, Simoncsits A, Jeltsch A, Pingoud V, Wende W, Pingoud A. Developing a programmed restriction endonuclease for highly specific DNA cleavage. Nucleic Acids Res 2005; 33:7039-47. [PMID: 16356926 PMCID: PMC1316111 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gki1009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Specific cleavage of large DNA molecules at few sites, necessary for the analysis of genomic DNA or for targeting individual genes in complex genomes, requires endonucleases of extremely high specificity. Restriction endonucleases (REase) that recognize DNA sequences of 4-8 bp are not sufficiently specific for this purpose. In principle, the specificity of REases can be extended by fusion to sequence recognition modules, e.g. specific DNA-binding domains or triple-helix forming oligonucleotides (TFO). We have chosen to extend the specificity of REases using TFOs, given the combinatorial flexibility this fusion offers in addressing a short, yet precisely recognized restriction site next to a defined triple-helix forming site (TFS). We demonstrate here that the single chain variant of PvuII (scPvuII) covalently coupled via the bifunctional cross-linker N-(gamma-maleimidobutryloxy) succinimide ester to a TFO (5'-NH2-[CH2](6 or 12)-MPMPMPMPMPPPPPPT-3', with M being 5-methyl-2'-deoxycytidine and P being 5-[1-propynyl]-2'-deoxyuridine), cleaves DNA specifically at the recognition site of PvuII (CAGCTG) if located in a distance of approximately one helical turn to a TFS (underlined) complementary to the TFO ('addressed' site: 5'-TTTTTTTCTCTCTCTCN(approximately 10)CAGCTG-3'), leaving 'unaddressed' PvuII sites intact. The preference for cleavage of an 'addressed' compared to an 'unaddressed' site is >1000-fold, if the cleavage reaction is initiated by addition of Mg2+ ions after preincubation of scPvuII-TFO and substrate in the absence of Mg2+ ions to allow triple-helix formation before DNA cleavage. Single base pair substitutions in the TFS prevent addressed DNA cleavage by scPvuII-TFO.
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- International Centre for Genetic Engineering and BiotechnologyPadriciano 99, I-34012 Trieste, Italy
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- School of Engineering and Science, International University BremenCampus Ring 1, D-28725 Bremen, Germany
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- To whom correspondence should be addressed. Tel: +49 641 9935400; Fax: +49 641 9935409;
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Smolina IV, Demidov VV, Soldatenkov VA, Chasovskikh SG, Frank-Kamenetskii MD. End invasion of peptide nucleic acids (PNAs) with mixed-base composition into linear DNA duplexes. Nucleic Acids Res 2005; 33:e146. [PMID: 16204449 PMCID: PMC1243805 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gni151] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Peptide nucleic acid (PNA) is a synthetic DNA mimic with valuable properties and a rapidly growing scope of applications. With the exception of recently introduced pseudocomplementary PNAs, binding of common PNA oligomers to target sites located inside linear double-stranded DNAs (dsDNAs) is essentially restricted to homopurine-homopyrimidine sequence motifs, which significantly hampers some of the PNA applications. Here, we suggest an approach to bypass this limitation of common PNAs. We demonstrate that PNA with mixed composition of ordinary nucleobases is capable of sequence-specific targeting of complementary dsDNA sites if they are located at the very termini of DNA duplex. We then show that such targeting makes it possible to perform capturing of designated dsDNA fragments via the DNA-bound biotinylated PNA as well as to signal the presence of a specific dsDNA sequence, in the case a PNA beacon is employed. We also examine the PNA-DNA conjugate and prove that it can initiate the primer-extension reaction starting from the duplex DNA termini when a DNA polymerase with the strand-displacement ability is used. We thus conclude that recognition of duplex DNA by mixed-base PNAs via the end invasion has a promising potential for site-specific and sequence-unrestricted DNA manipulation and detection.
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- Irina V Smolina
- Center for Advanced Biotechnology, Boston University, 36 Cummington Street, Boston, MA 02215, USA.
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Lundin KE, Hasan M, Moreno PM, Törnquist E, Oprea I, Svahn MG, Simonson EO, Smith CIE. Increased stability and specificity through combined hybridization of peptide nucleic acid (PNA) and locked nucleic acid (LNA) to supercoiled plasmids for PNA-anchored "Bioplex" formation. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2005; 22:185-92. [PMID: 16144773 DOI: 10.1016/j.bioeng.2005.07.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Low cellular uptake and poor nuclear transfer hamper the use of non-viral vectors in gene therapy. Addition of functional entities to plasmids using the Bioplex technology has the potential to improve the efficiency of transfer considerably. We have investigated the possibility of stabilizing sequence-specific binding of peptide nucleic acid (PNA) anchored functional peptides to plasmid DNA by hybridizing PNA and locked nucleic acid (LNA) oligomers as "openers" to partially overlapping sites on the opposite DNA strand. The PNA "opener" stabilized the binding of "linear" PNA anchors to mixed-base supercoiled DNA in saline. For higher stability under physiological conditions, bisPNA anchors were used. To reduce nonspecific interactions when hybridizing highly cationic constructs and to accommodate the need for increased amounts of bisPNA when the molecules are uncharged, or negatively charged, we used both PNA and LNA oligomers as "openers" to increase binding kinetics. To our knowledge, this is the first time that LNA has been used together with PNA to facilitate strand invasion. This procedure allows hybridization at reduced PNA-to-plasmid ratios, allowing greater than 80% hybridization even at ratios as low as 2:1. Using significantly lower amounts of PNA-peptides combined with shorter incubation times reduces unspecific binding and facilitates purification.
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- Karin E Lundin
- Clinical Research Center, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Novum PL 5, Karolinska University Hospital, Huddinge, SE-141 86 Stockholm, Sweden.
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Nielsen PE, Frederiksen K, Behrens C. Extended target sequence specificity of PNA-minor-groove binder conjugates. Chembiochem 2005; 6:66-8. [PMID: 15593115 DOI: 10.1002/cbic.200400251] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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- Peter E Nielsen
- Department of Medical Biochemistry and Genetics, University of Copenhagen, The Panum Institute, Blegdamsvej 3c, Copenhagen N 2200, Denmark.
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Datta B, Bier ME, Roy S, Armitage BA. Quadruplex formation by a guanine-rich PNA oligomer. J Am Chem Soc 2005; 127:4199-207. [PMID: 15783201 DOI: 10.1021/ja0446202] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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A guanine-rich PNA dodecamer having the sequence H-G4T4G4-Lys-NH2 (G-PNA) hybridizes with a DNA dodecamer of homologous sequence to form a four-stranded quadruplex (Datta, B.; Schmitt, C.; Armitage, B. A. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2003, 125, 4111-4118). This report describes quadruplex formation by the PNA alone. UV melting curves and fluorescence resonance energy transfer experiments reveal formation of a multistranded structure stabilized by guanine tetrads. The ion dependency of these structures is analogous to that reported for DNA quadruplexes. Electrospray ionization mass spectrometry indicates that both dimeric and tetrameric quadruplexes are formed by G4-PNA, with the dimeric form being preferred. These results have implications for the use of G-rich PNA for homologous hybridization to G-rich targets in chromosomal DNA and suggest additional applications in assembling quadruplex structures within lipid bilayer environments.
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- Bhaskar Datta
- Department of Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon University, 4400 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213-3890, USA
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Filichev VV, Christensen UB, Pedersen EB, Babu BR, Wengel J. Locked nucleic acids and intercalating nucleic acids in the design of easily denaturing nucleic acids: thermal stability studies. Chembiochem 2005; 5:1673-9. [PMID: 15532065 DOI: 10.1002/cbic.200400222] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Intercalating nucleic acids (INA(R)s) with insertions of (R)-1-O-(1-pyrenylmethyl)glycerol were hybridized with locked nucleic acids (LNAs). INA/LNA duplexes were found to be less stable than the corresponding DNA/LNA duplexes when the INA monomer was inserted as a bulge close to the LNA monomers in the opposite strand. This property was used to make "quenched" complements that possess LNA in hairpins and in duplexes and are consequently more accessible for targeting native DNA. The duplex between a fully modified 13-mer LNA sequence and a complementary INA with six pyrene residues inserted after every second base as a bulge was found to be very unstable (Tm=30.1 degrees C) in comparison with the unmodified double-stranded DNA (Tm=48.7 degrees C) and the corresponding duplexes of LNA/DNA (Tm=81.6 degrees C) and INA/DNA (Tm=66.4 degrees C). A thermal melting experiment of a mixture of an LNA hairpin, with five LNA nucleotides in the stem, and its complementary DNA sequence gave a transition with an extremely low increase in optical density (hyperchromicity). When two INA monomers were inserted into the stem of the LNA hairpin, the same experiment resulted in a significant hyperchromicity comparable with the one obtained for the corresponding DNA/DNA duplex.
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- Vyacheslav V Filichev
- Nucleic Acid Center, Department of Chemistry, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, 5230 Odense M, Denmark
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Lundin KE, Ge R, Svahn MG, Törnquist E, Leijon M, Brandén LJ, Smith CIE. Cooperative strand invasion of supercoiled plasmid DNA by mixed linear PNA and PNA-peptide chimeras. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2005; 21:51-9. [PMID: 15113558 DOI: 10.1016/j.bioeng.2003.10.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/06/2003] [Revised: 09/12/2003] [Accepted: 10/10/2003] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Peptide nucleic acid (PNA) is a DNA analog with broad biotechnical applications, and possibly also treatment applications. Its suggested uses include that of a specific anchor sequence for biologically active peptides to plasmids in a sequence-specific manner. Such complexes, referred to as Bioplex, have already been used to enhance non-viral gene transfer in vitro. To investigate how hybridization of PNAs to supercoiled plasmids would be affected by the binding of multiple PNA-peptides to the same strand of DNA, we have developed a method of quantifying the specific binding of PNA using a PNA labeled with a derivative of the fluorophore thiazole orange (TO). Cooperative effects were found at a distance of up to three bases. With a peptide present at the end of one of the PNAs, steric hindrance occurred, reducing the increase in binding rate when the distance between the two sites was less than two bases. In addition, we found increased binding kinetics when two PNAs binding to overlapping sites on opposite DNA strands were used, without the use of chemically modified bases in the PNAs.
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- Karin E Lundin
- Clinical Research Center, Karolinska Institutet, Novum Pl. 5, Huddinge University Hospital, SE-141 86 Stockholm, Sweden.
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The recognition of cellular nucleic acids by synthetic oligonucleotides is a versatile strategy for regulating biological processes. The vast majority of published studies have focused on antisense oligonucleotides that target mRNA, but it is also possible to design antigene oligonucleotides that are complementary to chromosomal DNA. Antigene oligomers could be used to inhibit the expression of any gene or analyze promoter structure and the mechanisms governing gene regulation. Other potential applications of antigene oligomers include activation of expression of chosen genes or the introduction of mutations to correct genetic disease. Peptide nucleic acid (PNA) is a nonionic DNA/RNA mimic that possesses outstanding potential for recognition of duplex DNA. Here we describe properties of PNAs and the challenges for their development as robust antigene agents.
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- Kunihiro Kaihatsu
- Departments of Pharmacology and Biochemistry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, 5323 Harry Hines Boulevard, Dallas, TX 75390 USA
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Hrdlicka PJ, Kumar TS, Wengel J. Targeting of mixed sequence double-stranded DNA using pyrene-functionalized 2′-amino-α-l-LNA. Chem Commun (Camb) 2005:4279-81. [PMID: 16113721 DOI: 10.1039/b506986f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Incorporation of a single pyrene-functionalized 2'-amino-alpha-l-LNA monomer X into short DNA strands induces extraordinarily high binding affinity towards complementary DNA (up to 16 degrees C increase per modification), whereas labile duplexes, suitable as probes for targeting of double stranded DNA, are formed upon positioning of two monomers X in an interstrand +1 zipper motif.
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- Patrick J Hrdlicka
- Nucleic Acid Center, Department of Chemistry, University of Southern Denmark, DK-5230 Odense M, Denmark
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Nielsen PE. The many faces of PNA. Int J Pept Res Ther 2005. [DOI: 10.1007/s10989-005-4860-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Peptide nucleic acids (PNAs) are synthetic oligonucleotides with chemically modified backbones. PNAs can bind to both DNA and RNA targets in a sequence-specific manner to form PNA/DNA and PNA/RNA duplex structures. When bound to double-stranded DNA (dsDNA) targets, the PNA molecule replaces one DNA strand in the duplex by strand invasion to form a PNA/DNA/PNA [or (PNA)2/DNA] triplex structure and the displaced DNA strand exists as a single-stranded D-loop. PNA has been used in many studies as research tools for gene regulation and gene targeting. The D-loops generated from the PNA binding have also been demonstrated for its potential in initiating transcription and inducing gene expression. PNA provides a powerful tool to study the mechanism of transcription and an innovative strategy to regulate target gene expression. An understanding of the PNA-mediated gene regulation will have important clinical implications in treatment of many human diseases including genetic, cancerous, and age-related diseases.
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- Gan Wang
- Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Wayne State University, 2727 Second Avenue, Detroit, MI 48201, USA.
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Peptide nucleic acids (PNA) are deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) mimics with a pseudopeptide backbone. PNA is an extremely good structural mimic of DNA (or of ribonucleic acid [RNA]), and PNA oligomers are able to form very stable duplex structures with Watson-Crick complementary DNA and RNA (or PNA) oligomers, and they can also bind to targets in duplex DNA by helix invasion. Therefore, these molecules are of interest in many areas of chemistry, biology, and medicine, including drug discovery, genetic diagnostics, molecular recognition, and the origin of life. Recent progress in studies of PNA properties and applications is reviewed.
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- Peter E Nielsen
- Center for Biomolecular Recognition, IMBG, The Panum Institute, University of Copenhagen, Blegdamsvej 3C, Copenhagen DK-2200N, Denmark.
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Abibi A, Protozanova E, Demidov VV, Frank-Kamenetskii MD. Specific versus nonspecific binding of cationic PNAs to duplex DNA. Biophys J 2004; 86:3070-8. [PMID: 15111421 PMCID: PMC1304173 DOI: 10.1016/s0006-3495(04)74356-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022] Open
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Although peptide nucleic acids (PNAs) are neutral by themselves, they are usually appended with positively charged lysine residues to increase their solubility and binding affinity for nucleic acid targets. Thus obtained cationic PNAs very effectively interact with the designated duplex DNA targets in a sequence-specific manner forming strand-invasion complexes. We report on the study of the nonspecific effects in the kinetics of formation of sequence-specific PNA-DNA complexes. We find that in a typical range of salt concentrations used when working with strand-invading PNAs (10-20 mM NaCl) the PNA binding rates essentially do not depend on the presence of nontarget DNA in the reaction mixture. However, at lower salt concentrations (<10 mM NaCl), the rates of PNA binding to DNA targets are significantly slowed down by the excess of unrelated DNA. This effect of nontarget DNA arises from depleting the concentration of free PNA capable of interacting with DNA target due to adhesion of positively charged PNA molecules on the negatively charged DNA duplex. As expected, the nonspecific electrostatic effects are more pronounced for more charged PNAs. We propose a simple model quantitatively describing all major features of the observed phenomenon. This understanding is important for design of and manipulation with the DNA-binding polycationic ligands in general and PNA-based drugs in particular.
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- Ayome Abibi
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
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Yamamoto Y, Uehara A, Tomita T, Komiyama M. Site-selective and hydrolytic two-strand scission of double-stranded DNA using Ce(IV)/EDTA and pseudo-complementary PNA. Nucleic Acids Res 2004; 32:e153. [PMID: 15520462 PMCID: PMC528827 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gnh151] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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By combining Ce(IV)/EDTA with two pseudo-complementary peptide nucleic acids (pcPNAs), both strands in double-stranded DNA were site-selectively hydrolyzed at the target site. Either plasmid DNA (4361 bp) or its linearized form was used as the substrate. When two pcPNAs invaded into the double-stranded DNA, only the designated portion in each of the two strands was free from Watson-Crick base pairing with the counterpart DNA or the pcPNA. Upon the treatment of this invasion complex with Ce(IV)/EDTA at 37 degrees C and pH 7.0, both of these single-stranded portions were selectively hydrolyzed at the designated site, resulting in the site-selective two-strand scission of the double-stranded DNA. Furthermore, the hydrolytic scission products were successfully connected with foreign double-stranded DNA by using ligase. The potential of these artificial systems for manipulation of huge DNA has been indicated.
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- Yoji Yamamoto
- Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, 4-6-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153-8904, Japan.
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Marin VL, Roy S, Armitage BA. Recent advances in the development of peptide nucleic acid as a gene-targeted drug. Expert Opin Biol Ther 2004; 4:337-48. [PMID: 15006728 DOI: 10.1517/14712598.4.3.337] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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Peptide nucleic acid (PNA) is a non-ionic mimic of DNA that binds to complementary DNA and RNA sequences with high affinity and selectivity. Targeting of single-stranded RNA leads to antisense effects, whereas PNAs directed toward double-stranded DNA exhibit antigene properties. Recent advances in cell uptake and in antisense and antigene effects in biological systems are summarised in this review. In addition to traditional targets, namely genomic DNA and messenger RNA, applications for PNA as a bacteriocidal antibiotic, for regulating splice site selection and as a telomerase inhibitor are described.
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- Violeta L Marin
- Department of Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon University, 4400 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890, USA
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Yamamoto Y, Komiyama M. Site-selective Scission of Double-stranded DNA by Combining Peptide Nucleic Acids and Ce(IV)/EDTA. CHEM LETT 2004. [DOI: 10.1246/cl.2004.920] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Morris MC, Chaloin L, Choob M, Archdeacon J, Heitz F, Divita G. Combination of a new generation of PNAs with a peptide-based carrier enables efficient targeting of cell cycle progression. Gene Ther 2004; 11:757-64. [PMID: 14961071 DOI: 10.1038/sj.gt.3302235] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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The design of potent systems for the delivery of charged and noncharged molecules that target genes of interest remains a challenge. We describe a novel technology that combines a new generation of peptide nucleic acids (PNAs), or HypNA-pPNAs, with a new noncovalent peptide-based delivery system, Pep-2, which promotes efficient delivery of PNAs into several cell lines. We have validated the potential of this technology by showing that Pep2-mediated delivery of an antisense HypNA-pPNA chimera directed specifically against cyclin B1 induces rapid and robust downregulation of its protein levels and efficiently blocks cell cycle progression of several cell lines, as well as proliferation of cells derived from a breast cancer. Pep-2-based delivery system was shown to be 100-fold more efficient in delivering HypNA-pPNAs than classical cationic lipid-based methods. Whereas Pep-2 is essential for improving the bioavailability of PNAs and HypNA-pPNAs, the latter contribute significantly to the efficiency and specificity of the biological response. We have found that Pep-2/HypNA-pPNA strategy promotes potent antisense effects, which are approximately 25-fold greater than with classical antisense oligonucleotide directed specifically against the same cyclin B1 target. Taken together, these data demonstrate that peptide-mediated delivery of HypNA-pPNAs constitutes a very promising technology for therapeutic applications.
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- M C Morris
- Department of Biophysics, Centre de Recherches de Biochimie Macromoléculaire, UPR-1086 CNRS, Montpellier, France
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Demidov VV, Frank-Kamenetskii MD. Two sides of the coin: affinity and specificity of nucleic acid interactions. Trends Biochem Sci 2004; 29:62-71. [PMID: 15102432 DOI: 10.1016/j.tibs.2003.12.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 144] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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During the past decade, synthetic nucleobase oligomers have found wide use in biochemical sciences, biotechnology and molecular medicine, both as research and/or diagnostic tools and as therapeutics. Numerous applications of common and modified oligonucleotides and oligonucleotide mimics rely on their ability to sequence-specifically recognize nucleic acid targets (DNA or RNA) by forming duplexes or triplexes. In general, these applications would benefit significantly from enhanced binding affinities of nucleobase oligomers in the formation of various secondary structures. However, for high-affinity probes, the selectivity of sequence recognition must also be improved to avoid undesirable associations with mismatched DNA and RNA sites. Here, we review recent progress in understanding the molecular mechanisms of nucleic acid interactions and the development of new high-affinity plus high-specificity oligonucleotides and their mimics, with particular emphasis on peptide nucleic acids.
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- Vadim V Demidov
- Center for Advanced Biotechnology, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA.
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Kuhn H, Cherny DI, Demidov VV, Frank-Kamenetskii MD. Inducing and modulating anisotropic DNA bends by pseudocomplementary peptide nucleic acids. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2004; 101:7548-53. [PMID: 15136738 PMCID: PMC419643 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0308756101] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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DNA bending is significant for various DNA functions in the cell. Here, we demonstrate that pseudocomplementary peptide nucleic acids (pcPNAs) represent a class of versatile, sequence-specific DNA-bending agents. The occurrence of anisotropic DNA bends induced by pcPNAs is shown by gel electrophoretic phasing analysis. The magnitude of DNA bending is determined by circular permutation assay and by electron microscopy, with good agreement of calculated mean values between both methods. Binding of a pair of 10-meric pcPNAs to its target DNA sequence results in moderate DNA bending with a mean value of 40-45 degrees, while binding of one self-pc 8-mer PNA to target DNA yields a somewhat larger average value of the induced DNA bend. Both bends are found to be in phase when the pcPNA target sites are separated by distances of half-integer numbers of helical turns of regular duplex DNA, resulting in an enhanced DNA bend with an average value in the range of 80-90 degrees. The occurrence of such a sharp bend within the DNA double helix is confirmed and exploited through efficient formation of 170-bp-long DNA minicircles by means of dimerization of two bent DNA fragments. The pcPNAs offer two main advantages over previously designed classes of nonnatural DNA-bending agents: they have very mild sequence limitations while targeting duplex DNA and they can easily be designed for a chosen target sequence, because their binding obeys the principle of complementarity. We conclude that pcPNAs are promising tools for inducing bends in DNA at virtually any chosen site.
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- Heiko Kuhn
- Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, 36 Cummington Street, Boston, MA 02215, USA
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Bryld T, Hojland T, Wengel J. DNA-selective hybridization and dual strand invasion of short double-stranded DNA using pyren-1-ylcarbonyl-functionalized 4'-C-piperazinomethyl-DNA. Chem Commun (Camb) 2004:1064-5. [PMID: 15116186 DOI: 10.1039/b402414a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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Incorporation of a novel pyren-1-ylcarbonyl-functionalized 4'-C-piperazinomethyl-DNA monomer into oligodeoxynucleotides leads to increased thermal stability of duplexes with DNA complements but reduced thermal stability of duplexes with RNA complements. This DNA-selective hybridization is explored for recognition of double-stranded DNA by a novel dual strand invasion approach.
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- Torsten Bryld
- Nucleic Acid Center, Department of Chemistry, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, DK-5230 Odense M, Denmark
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Filipovska A, Eccles MR, Smith RAJ, Murphy MP. Delivery of antisense peptide nucleic acids (PNAs) to the cytosol by disulphide conjugation to a lipophilic cation. FEBS Lett 2004; 556:180-6. [PMID: 14706847 DOI: 10.1016/s0014-5793(03)01403-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Peptide nucleic acids (PNAs) are effective antisense reagents that bind specific mRNAs preventing their translation. However, PNAs cannot cross cell membranes, hampering delivery to cells. To overcome this problem we made PNAs membrane-permeant by conjugation to the lipophilic triphenylphosphonium (TPP) cation through a disulphide bond. The TPP cation led to efficient PNA uptake into the cytoplasm where the disulphide bond was reduced, releasing the antisense PNA to block expression of its target gene. This method of directing PNAs into cells is a significant improvement on current procedures and will facilitate in vitro and pharmacological applications of PNAs.
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- Aleksandra Filipovska
- Medical Research Council Dunn Human Nutrition Unit, Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Hills Road, CB2 2XY, Cambridge, UK
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Yamamoto Y, Komiyama M. Peptide Nucleic Acid for Rapid Gap-selective Hydrolysis of DNA by Ce(IV)/EDTA Complex. CHEM LETT 2004. [DOI: 10.1246/cl.2004.76] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Sun JS, Hélène C. Oligonucleotides and derivatives as gene-specific control agents. NUCLEOSIDES NUCLEOTIDES & NUCLEIC ACIDS 2003; 22:489-505. [PMID: 14565225 DOI: 10.1081/ncn-120021950] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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The current achievement of genome sequence projects of a dozen eukaryote organisms (including human genome) and the development of functional genomics are providing the basic knowledge required to utilize gene-specific reagents for both basic understanding of cell physiology and therapeutical development. The field of chemical genomics has the ambitious goal of designing molecules that could act selectively on every single gene or gene product in a cell and in vivo. The progress in oligonucleotide-based approaches will be the topic of this review, however, other nucleic acid- and SELEX-based approaches as well as high sequence-specific low molecular weight DNA-specific ligands will also be discussed.
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- Jian-Sheng Sun
- Laboratoire de Biophysique, USM0503 Régulation et Dynamique des Génomes, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, UMR8646 CNRS-MNHN, U565 INSERM, Paris, France.
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McGregor A, Smith PM, Ross GF, Taylor RW, Turnbull DM, Lightowlers RN. Bridging PNAs can bind preferentially to a deleted mitochondrial DNA template but replication by mitochondrial DNA polymerase gamma in vitro is not impaired. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2003; 1629:73-83. [PMID: 14522082 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbaexp.2003.08.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Mutations in mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) are an important cause of neurological and other human pathologies. In the vast majority of cases, supportive care only is available. Mutated and wild-type mtDNAs often coexist in the same cell. A strategy for treatment has been proposed whereby replication of mutated mtDNA is inhibited by selective hybridisation of a nucleic acid derivative, allowing propagation of the wild-type genome and correction of the associated respiratory chain defect. Peptide nucleic acid molecules (PNAs) can be designed to selectively target pathogenic mtDNA with single point mutations. Molecules harbouring deletions present a complex problem. Deletions often occur between two short repeat sequences (4-13 residues), one of which is retained in the deleted molecule. With the more common large repeats, it is therefore difficult to design an antigenomic molecule that will bind selectively under physiological conditions. Following limited success with antigenomic oligodeoxynucleotides (ODNs), we have repeated these studies with a series of bridging PNAs. Molecules complementary to the sequence flanking either side of the 13 bp 'common deletion' were synthesised. The PNAs demonstrated markedly greater affinity for the delete than to the wild-type template. In runoff assays using Klenow fragment, these PNAs selectively inhibited replication of the delete template. However, no selective inhibition was observed when a polymerase gamma-containing mitochondrial fraction was used.
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- Alistair McGregor
- School of Neurology, Neurobiology and Psychiatry, The Medical School, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Framlington Place, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE2 4HH, UK
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Protozanova E, Demidov VV, Nielsen PE, Frank-Kamenetskii MD. Pseudocomplementary PNAs as selective modifiers of protein activity on duplex DNA: the case of type IIs restriction enzymes. Nucleic Acids Res 2003; 31:3929-35. [PMID: 12853608 PMCID: PMC165965 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkg450] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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This study evaluates the potential of pseudocomplementary peptide nucleic acids (pcPNAs) for sequence-specific modification of enzyme activity towards double-stranded DNA (dsDNA). To this end, we analyze the ability of pcPNA-dsDNA complexes to site-selectively interfere with the action of four type IIs restriction enzymes. We have found that pcPNA-dsDNA complexes exhibit a different degree of DNA protection against cleaving/nicking activity of various isoschizomeric endonucleases under investigation (PleI, MlyI and N.BstNBI) depending on their type and mutual arrangement of PNA-binding and enzyme recognition/cleavage sites. We have also found that the pcPNA targeting to closely located PleI or BbsI recognition sites on dsDNA generates in some cases the nicking activity of these DNA cutters. At the same time, MlyI endonuclease, a PleI isoschizomer, does not exhibit any DNA nicking/cleavage activity, being completely blocked by the nearby pcPNA binding. Our results have general implications for effective pcPNA interference with the performance of DNA-processing proteins, thus being important for prospective applications of pcPNAs.
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Jeon JW, Son SJ, Yoo CE, Hong IS, Suh J. Toward protein-cleaving catalytic drugs: artificial protease selective for myoglobin. Bioorg Med Chem 2003; 11:2901-10. [PMID: 12788360 DOI: 10.1016/s0968-0896(03)00216-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 55] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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A protein-cleaving catalyst highly selective for a disease-related protein can be used as a catalytic drug. As the first protein-cleaving catalyst selective for a protein substrate, a catalyst for myoglobin (Mb) was designed by attaching the Cu(II) or Co(III) complex of cyclen to a binding site searched by a combinatorial method using peptide nucleic acid monomers as building units. Various linkers were inserted between the catalytic Co(III) center and the binding site of the Mb-cleaving catalyst. Kinetic data revealed catalytic turnover of the Mb cleavage by the Cu(II) or Co(III) complex. MALDI-TOF MS revealed cleavage of the polypeptide backbone of Mb at selected positions. N-Terminal sequencing of the cleavage products identified the cleavage site and provided evidence for the hydrolytic nature of the Mb cleavage. Various chelating ligands were tested as the ligand for the Co(III) center of the Mb-cleaving catalyst. Among the nine chelating ligands examined, only cyclen and its triaza-monooxo analogue manifested catalytic activity.
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- Joong Won Jeon
- School of Chemistry, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-747, South Korea
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Smolina IV, Demidov VV. Sequence-universal recognition of duplex DNA by oligonucleotides via pseudocomplementarity and helix invasion. CHEMISTRY & BIOLOGY 2003; 10:591-5. [PMID: 12890532 DOI: 10.1016/s1074-5521(03)00150-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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The well-known Watson-Crick complementarity rules, which were discovered 50 years ago, elegantly direct the specific pairing of two DNA single strands. On the contrary, once formed, the double-stranded (ds) DNA lacks such a simple and sequence-universal recognition principle, since most of the characteristic chemical groups of nucleobases are now buried deep inside the double helix, the major DNA form. We report a promising versatile approach for highly selective recognition of designated sites within dsDNA featuring considerable practical potential for a variety of molecular-biological, biotechnological, gene-therapeutic, and diagnostic applications. It may also have implications for prebiotic evolution of genetic machinery at the primordial stages of the origin of life. Our design synergistically employs the robust helix-invasion ability of recently developed DNA mimics and analogs, pseudocomplementary peptide nucleic acids and pseudocomplementary oligonucleotides, thus enabling the sequence-unrestricted recognition of chosen DNA duplexes by nucleobase oligomers. Using this basically general approach, we selectively tagged a unique mixed-base site on the target dsDNA fragment with streptavidin and/or multiply labeled this site with fluorophores via the primer-extension reaction.
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- Irina V Smolina
- Center for Advanced Biotechnology, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, 36 Cummington Street, Boston, MA 02215, USA
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Wang G, Glazer PM. Peptide nucleic acids as agents to modify target gene expression and function. Int J Pept Res Ther 2003. [DOI: 10.1007/s10989-004-4903-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Hybridization of oligonucleotides and their analogues to complementary DNA or RNA sequences is complicated by the presence of secondary and tertiary structure in the target. In particular, folding of the target nucleic acid imposes substantial thermodynamic penalties to hybridization. Slower kinetics for hybridization can also be observed, relative to an unstructured target. The development of high affinity oligonucleotide analogues such as peptide nucleic acid (PNA) can compensate for the thermodynamic and kinetic barriers to hybridization. Examples of structured targets successfully hybridized by PNA oligomers include DNA duplexes, DNA hairpins, DNA quadruplexes and an RNA hairpin embedded within a mRNA.
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- Bruce A Armitage
- Dept of Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon University, 4400 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890, USA.
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Peptide nucleic acid (PNA) is a DNA mimic having a pseudopeptide backbone that makes it extremely stable in biological fluids. PNA binds complementary RNA and DNA with high affinity and specificity. These qualities make PNA a leading agent among "third generation" antisense and antigene agents. Unfortunately, fast progress in the exploration of PNA as an experimental and therapeutical regulator of gene expression has been hampered by the poor cellular uptake of PNA. However, a number of transfection protocols for PNA have now been established. These include microinjection, electroporation, co-transfection with DNA, conjugation to lipophilic moieties, conjugation to peptides, etc. Here we give a short introduction to the basic findings on PNA as an antisense and antigene agent in cell-free in vitro systems. This is followed by a comprehensive evaluation of the most interesting literature concerning cellular delivery and the intracellular effect of PNA. Also the current progress as regards using PNA as co-factor in DNA delivery is reviewed.
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- Uffe Koppelhus
- Biochemistry Laboratory B, Center for Biomolecular Recognition, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Genetics, The Panum Institute, Blegdamsvej 3c, 2200 N Copenhagen, Denmark
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Rajeev KG, Maier MA, Lesnik EA, Manoharan M. High-affinity peptide nucleic acid oligomers containing tricyclic cytosine analogues. Org Lett 2002; 4:4395-8. [PMID: 12465896 DOI: 10.1021/ol027026a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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[structure: see text] Peptide nucleic acid (PNA) monomers containing the tricyclic cytosine analogues phenoxazine, 9-(2-aminoethoxy)phenoxazine (G-clamp), and 9-(3-aminopropoxy)phenoxazine (propyl-G-clamp) have been synthesized. The modified nucleobases were incorporated into PNA oligomers using Boc-chemistry for solid-phase synthesis. PNAs containing single G-clamp modifications exhibit significantly enhanced affinity toward RNA and DNA targets relative to unmodified PNA while maintaining mismatch discrimination. These PNA G-clamp modifications exhibit the highest increase in affinity toward nucleic acid targets reported so far for PNA modifications.
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Jeon JW, Son SJ, Yoo CE, Hong IS, Song JB, Suh J. Protein-cleaving catalyst selective for protein substrate. Org Lett 2002; 4:4155-8. [PMID: 12423110 DOI: 10.1021/ol0269300] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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A protein-cleaving catalyst specific for a disease-related protein can be used as a catalytic drug. As the first protein-cleaving catalyst selective for a protein substrate, a catalyst for myoglobin was designed by attaching Cu(II) or Co(III) complex of cyclen to a binding site searched by a combinatorial method using peptide nucleic acid monomers as building units. [reaction: see text]
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- Joong Won Jeon
- School of Chemistry and Center for Molecular Catalysis, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-747, Korea
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