title: Locked TASC probes for homogeneous sensing of nucleic acids and imaging of fixed E. coli cells.
abstract: We have designed a second-generation TASC (target-assisted self-cleavage) probe. It is based on the switching-on of incorporated cis-acting DNAzyme activity upon the target-induced conformational change of the otherwise inactive off-target probes locked in an intrastrand base-paired hairpin geometry. With E. coli 16S ribosomal RNA-relevant oligonucleotides as targets, the locked TASC probe exhibits an allosteric factor of k(on)/k(off) = 65 and the sequence selectivity is high, in terms of single nucleotide difference, when particular sequence and length of targets are chosen. Preliminary experiments with fixed E. coli cells show that the locked TASC probe with a FRET pair can be used to image fixed E. coli cells.
authors.affiliation: Department of Synthetic Chemistry and Biological Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, Katsura, Nishikyo-ku, Kyoto, 615-8510, Japan.
authors.forename: Shinsuke
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sando
authors.forename: Atsushi
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Narita
authors.forename: Toshinori
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Sasaki
authors.forename: Yasuhiro
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Aoyama
mesh_terms: D000494:Allosteric Regulation / Q000235:genetics; D001483:Base Sequence; D015342:DNA Probes / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009690:Nucleic Acid Conformation; D009841:Oligonucleotides / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism; D012336:RNA, Ribosomal, 16S / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D015342:DNA Probes; D009841:Oligonucleotides; D012336:RNA, Ribosomal, 16S