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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Sholokh, Marianna
• Sharma, Rajhans
• Grytsyk, Natalia
• Zaghzi, Lyes
• Postupalenko, Viktoriia Y.
• Dziuba, Dmytro
• Barthes, Nicolas P. F.
• Michel, Benoît Y.
• Boudier, Christian
• Zaporozhets, Olga A.
• Tor, Yitzhak
• Burger, Alain
• Mély, Yves

Titel

Environmentally Sensitive Fluorescent Nucleoside Analogues for Surveying Dynamic Interconversions of Nucleic Acid Structures

Ist Teil von

• Chemistry : a European journal, 2018-09, Vol.24 (52), p.13850-13861

Ort / Verlag

Germany: Wiley Subscription Services, Inc

Erscheinungsjahr

2018

Quelle

Wiley-Blackwell Journals

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Nucleic acids are characterized by a variety of dynamically interconverting structures that play a major role in transcriptional and translational regulation as well as recombination and repair. To monitor these interconversions, Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET)‐based techniques can be used, but require two fluorophores that are typically large and can alter the DNA/RNA structure and protein binding. Additionally, events that do not alter the donor/acceptor distance and/or angular relationship are frequently left undetected. A more benign approach relies on fluorescent nucleobases that can substitute their native counterparts with minimal perturbation, such as the recently developed 2‐thienyl‐3‐hydroxychromone (3HCnt) and thienoguanosine (thG). To demonstrate the potency of 3HCnt and thG in deciphering interconversion mechanisms, we used the conversion of the (−)DNA copy of the HIV‐1 primer binding site (−)PBS stem‐loop into (+)/(−)PBS duplex, as a model system. When incorporated into the (−)PBS loop, the two probes were found to be highly sensitive to the individual steps both in the absence and the presence of a nucleic acid chaperone, providing the first complete mechanistic description of this critical process in HIV‐1 replication. The combination of the two distinct probes appears to be instrumental for characterizing structural transitions of nucleic acids under various stimuli. Very dynamic: 2‐Thienyl‐3‐hydroxychromone and thienoguanosine have been used to monitor the interconversion dynamics of nucleic acid structures. Both the probes are highly sensitive to report each step of HIV‐1 primer binding site [(+)/(−)PBS] interconversions both in the absence and presence of protein (see figure).