title: Synthesis of 8-aza-3,7-dideaza-2'-deoxyadenosines possessing a new adenosine skeleton as an environmentally sensitive fluorescent nucleoside for monitoring the DNA minor groove.
abstract: 8-Aza-3,7-dideaza-2'-deoxyadenosine 1 and its C3-naphthylethynylated derivative (3n7z)A (2) comprising a 8-aza-3,7-dideazapurine (pyrazolo[4,3-c]pyridine) skeleton were synthesized for the first time. In particular, nucleoside (3n7z)A (2) exhibited environmentally sensitive intramolecular charge transfer (ICT) emission because of electron transition in the coplanar conformer formed by nucleobase and naphthalene moieties. Its incorporation into oligodeoxynucleotide (ODN) probes enable a clear identification of a perfectly matched thymine (T) in the complementary strand by a distinct change in the emission wavelength. In addition, the fluorescence emission of the duplexes containing a cytosine/guanine (C/G) base pair flanking (3n7z)A (2) was strongly quenched by guanine only when the opposite base of the modified nucleoside was mismatched, enhancing its base identification ability. Thus, ODN probes containing (3n7z)A (2) acted as effective reporter probes for homogeneous single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) typing.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemical Biology and Applied Chemistry, College of Engineering, Nihon University, Koriyama, Fukushima 963-8642, Japan. saitoy@chem.ce.nihon-u.ac.jp.
authors.forename: Azusa
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Suzuki
authors.forename: Mio
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Saito
authors.forename: Ryuzi
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Katoh
authors.forename: Yoshio
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Saito
mesh_terms: D066241:Carbon-13 Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy; D004247:DNA / Q000737:chemistry*; D003839:Deoxyadenosines / Q000138:chemical synthesis* / Q000737:chemistry; D009690:Nucleic Acid Conformation; D009705:Nucleosides / Q000737:chemistry*; D012997:Solvents; D013050:Spectrometry, Fluorescence; D044366:Transition Temperature
chemical_list: D003839:Deoxyadenosines; D009705:Nucleosides; D012997:Solvents; D004247:DNA; C058118:2'-deoxyadenosine