Tetrazolylpyrene unnatural nucleoside as a human telomeric multimeric G-quadruplex selective switch-on fluorescent sensor

Org Biomol Chem. 2017 Dec 13;15(48):10145-10150. doi: 10.1039/c7ob02433a.

Abstract

We report herein the specific sensing of dimeric H45 G-quadruplex DNA via a fluorescence light-up response using fluorescent tetrazolylpyrene nucleoside (TzPyBDo) as a probe. The strong binding of the probe via an intercalative stacking interaction inside the connecting loop of two G-quadruplex units of H45 and the discrimination to other monomeric and long DNA duplexes are accompanied by a drastic enhancement of the emission intensity without compromising the conformation and stability.

MeSH terms

  • Fluorescent Dyes / chemistry
  • G-Quadruplexes*
  • Humans
  • Molecular Structure
  • Nucleosides / chemistry*
  • Telomere / chemistry*

Substances

  • Fluorescent Dyes
  • Nucleosides