Ultra‐acceleration of Photochemical Cytosine Deamination by Using a 5′‐Phosphate‐Substituted Oligodeoxyribonucleotide Probe Containing a 3‐Cyanovinylcarbazole Nucleotide at Its 5′‐End

  • Siddhant Sethi
    Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Asahi-dai 1-1 Nomi Ishikawa 923–1292 Japan
  • Nozomi Honda
    Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Asahi-dai 1-1 Nomi Ishikawa 923–1292 Japan
  • Licheng Wan
    Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Asahi-dai 1-1 Nomi Ishikawa 923–1292 Japan
  • Shigetaka Nakamura
    Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Asahi-dai 1-1 Nomi Ishikawa 923–1292 Japan
  • Kenzo Fujimoto
    Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology Asahi-dai 1-1 Nomi Ishikawa 923–1292 Japan

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<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>Genes are the blueprints for the architectures of living organisms, providing the backbone of the information required for formation of proteins. Changes in genes lead to disorders, and these disorders could be rectified by reversing the mutations that caused them. Photochemical methods currently in use for site‐directed mutagenesis employ the photoactive 3‐cyanovinylcarbazole (<jats:sup>CNV</jats:sup>K) nucleotide incorporated in the oligodeoxyribonucleotide (ODN) backbone. The major drawback of this method, the requirement for high temperature, has been addressed, and deamination has previously been achieved at 37 °C but with low efficiency. Here, efficient deamination has been accomplished under physiological conditions by using a short complementary photoactive ODN with a 5′‐phosphate group in the −1 position with respect to the target cytosine. It is hypothesized that the free phosphate group affects the microenvironment around the target cytosine by activating the incoming nucleophile through hydrogen bonding with the water molecule, thus facilitating nucleophilic attack on the cytosine C‐4 carbon. The degree of deamination observed in this technique is high and the effect of the phosphate group is to accelerate the deamination reaction.</jats:p>

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  • ChemBioChem

    ChemBioChem 19 (21), 2257-2261, 2018-10-15

    Wiley

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