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Mixed up minor groove binders: Convincing A·T specific compounds to recognize a G·C base pair.

ABSTRACT: DNA minor-groove-binding compounds have limited biological applications, in part due to problems with sequence specificity that cause off-target effects. A model to enhance specificity has been developed with the goal of preparing compounds that bind to two AT sites separated by G·C base pairs. Compounds of interest were probed using thermal melting, circular dichroism, mass spectrometry, biosensor-SPR, and molecular modeling methods. A new minor groove binder that can strongly and specifically recognize a single G·C base pair with flanking AT sequences has been prepared. This multi-site DNA recognition mode offers novel design principles to recognize entirely new DNA motifs.

SUBMITTER: Paul A

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4607563 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Mixed up minor groove binders: Convincing A·T specific compounds to recognize a G·C base pair.

Paul Ananya A Nanjunda Rupesh R Kumar Arvind A Laughlin Sarah S Nhili Raja R Depauw Sabine S Deuser Shelby Sheldon SS Chai Yun Y Chaudhary Arpana S AS David-Cordonnier Marie-Hélène MH Boykin David W DW Wilson W David WD

Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry letters 20150519 21

DNA minor-groove-binding compounds have limited biological applications, in part due to problems with sequence specificity that cause off-target effects. A model to enhance specificity has been developed with the goal of preparing compounds that bind to two AT sites separated by G·C base pairs. Compounds of interest were probed using thermal melting, circular dichroism, mass spectrometry, biosensor-SPR, and molecular modeling methods. A new minor groove binder that can strongly and specifically ...[more]

PMID: 26051649

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Project description:The classical model of DNA minor groove binding compounds is that they should have a crescent shape that closely fits the helical twist of the groove. Several compounds with relatively linear shape and large dihedral twist, however, have been found recently to bind strongly to the minor groove. These observations raise the question of how far the curvature requirement could be relaxed. As an initial step in experimental analysis of this question, a linear triphenyl diamidine, DB1111, and a series of nitrogen tricyclic analogues were prepared. The goal with the heterocycles is to design GC binding selectivity into heterocyclic compounds that can get into cells and exert biological effects. The compounds have a zero radius of curvature from amidine carbon to amidine carbon but a significant dihedral twist across the tricyclic and amidine-ring junctions. They would not be expected to bind well to the DNA minor groove by shape-matching criteria. Detailed DNase I footprinting studies of the sequence specificity of this set of diamidines indicated that a pyrimidine heterocyclic derivative, DB1242, binds specifically to a GC-rich sequence, -GCTCG-. It binds to the GC sequence more strongly than to the usual AT recognition sequences for curved minor groove agents. Other similar derivatives did not exhibit the GC specificity. Biosensor-surface plasmon resonance and isothermal titration calorimetry experiments indicate that DB1242 binds to the GC sequence as a highly cooperative stacked dimer. Circular dichroism results indicate that the compound binds in the minor groove. Molecular modeling studies support a minor groove complex and provide an inter-compound and compound-DNA hydrogen-bonding rational for the unusual GC binding specificity and the requirement for a pyrimidine heterocycle. This compound represents a new direction in the development of DNA sequence-specific agents, and it is the first non-polyamide, synthetic compound to specifically recognize a DNA sequence with a majority of GC base pairs.

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Mixed up minor groove binders: Convincing A·T specific compounds to recognize a G·C base pair.

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Mixed up minor groove binders: Convincing A·T specific compounds to recognize a G·C base pair.

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