title: 7-Deazapurine and 8-aza-7-deazapurine nucleoside and oligonucleotide pyrene "click" conjugates: synthesis, nucleobase controlled fluorescence quenching, and duplex stability.
abstract: 7-Deazapurine and 8-aza-7-deazapurine nucleosides related to dA and dG bearing 7-octadiynyl or 7-tripropargylamine side chains as well as corresponding oligonucleotides were synthesized. "Click" conjugation with 1-azidomethyl pyrene (10) resulted in fluorescent derivatives. Octadiynyl conjugates show only monomer fluorescence, while the proximal alignment of pyrene residues in the tripropargylamine derivatives causes excimer emission. 8-Aza-7-deazapurine pyrene "click" conjugates exhibit fluorescence emission much higher than that of 7-deazapurine derivatives. They are quenched by intramolecular charge transfer between the nucleobase and the dye. Oligonucleotide single strands decorated with two "double clicked" pyrenes show weak or no excimer fluorescence. However, when duplexes carry proximal pyrenes in complementary strands, strong excimer fluorescence is observed. A single replacement of a canonical nucleoside by a pyrene conjugate stabilizes the duplex substantially, most likely by stacking interactions: 6-12 °C for duplexes with a modified "adenine" base and 2-6 °C for a modified "guanine" base. The favorable photophysical properties of 8-aza-7-deazapurine pyrene conjugates improve the utility of pyrene fluorescence reporters in oligonucleotide sensing as these nucleoside conjugates are not affected by nucleobase induced quenching.
authors: Laboratory of Bioorganic Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Center for Nanotechnology , Heisenbergstraße 11, 48149 Münster, Germany.
authors: Sachin A
authors: SA
authors: Ingale
authors: Suresh S
authors: SS
authors: Pujari
authors: Venkata Ramana
authors: VR
authors: Sirivolu
authors: Ping
authors: P
authors: Ding
authors: Hai
authors: H
authors: Xiong
authors: Hui
authors: H
authors: Mei
authors: Frank
authors: F
authors: Seela
mesh_terms: D001483:Base Sequence; D057930:Click Chemistry; D004247:DNA / Q000737:chemistry*; D005453:Fluorescence; D008958:Models, Molecular; D009705:Nucleosides / Q000138:chemical synthesis* / Q000737:chemistry*; D009841:Oligonucleotides / Q000138:chemical synthesis* / Q000737:chemistry*; D011687:Purines; D011721:Pyrenes / Q000138:chemical synthesis* / Q000737:chemistry*; D013050:Spectrometry, Fluorescence
chemical_list: C512929:7-deazapurine; C572513:8-aza-7-deazapurine pyrene; D009705:Nucleosides; D009841:Oligonucleotides; D011687:Purines; D011721:Pyrenes; D004247:DNA; C030984:pyrene