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Date publication
juillet 2018
Journal
Chemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany)
Auteurs
Membres identifiés du Cancéropôle Est :
Pr MELY Yves
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Dr DZIUBA Dmytro
Tous les auteurs :
Sholokh M, Sharma R, Grytsyk N, Zaghzi L, Postupalenko V, Dziuba D, Barthes N, Michel B, Boudier C, Zaporozhets O, Tor Y, Burger A, Mely Y
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Résumé
Nucleic acids are characterized by a variety of dynamically interconverting structures that play a major role in transcriptional and translational regulation as well as recombination and repair. To monitor these interconversions, FRET-based techniques can be used, but require two fluorophores that are typically large and can alter the DNA/RNA structure and protein binding. Additionally, events that do not alter the donor/acceptor distance and/or angular relationship are frequently left undetected. A more benign approach relies on fluorescent nucleobases that can substitute their native counterparts with minimal perturbation, such as the recently developed 2-thienyl-3-hydroxychromone (3HCnt) and thienoguanosine (thG). To demonstrate the potency of 3HCnt and thG in deciphering interconversion mechanisms, we used the conversion of the (-)DNA copy of the HIV-1 primer binding site (-)PBS stem-loop into (+)/(-)PBS duplex, as a model system. When incorporated into the (-)PBS loop, the two probes were found to be highly sensitive to the individual steps both in the absence and the presence of a nucleic acid chaperone, providing the first complete mechanistic description of this critical process in HIV-1 replication. The combination of the two distinct probes appears to be instrumental for characterizing structural transitions of nucleic acids under various stimuli.
Mots clés
Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET), HIV, fluorescence, structural transitions, thienoguanosine
Référence
Chemistry. 2018 Jul 10;:
