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Metal-Mediated DNA Base Pairing: Alternatives to Hydrogen-Bonded Watson鈥揅rick Base Pairs
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  • 作者:Yusuke Takezawa ; Mitsuhiko Shionoya
  • 刊名:Accounts of Chemical Research
  • 出版年:2012
  • 出版时间:December 18, 2012
  • 年:2012
  • 卷:45
  • 期:12
  • 页码:2066-2076
  • 全文大小:621K
  • 年卷期:v.45,no.12(December 18, 2012)
  • ISSN:1520-4898
文摘
With its capacity to store and transfer the genetic information within a sequence of monomers, DNA forms its central role in chemical evolution through replication and amplification. This elegant behavior is largely based on highly specific molecular recognition between nucleobases through the specific hydrogen bonds in the Watson鈥揅rick base pairing system. While the native base pairs have been amazingly sophisticated through the long history of evolution, synthetic chemists have devoted considerable efforts to create alternative base pairing systems in recent decades. Most of these new systems were designed based on the shape complementarity of the pairs or the rearrangement of hydrogen-bonding patterns. We wondered whether metal coordination could serve as an alternative driving force for DNA base pairing and why hydrogen bonding was selected on Earth in the course of molecular evolution. Therefore, we envisioned an alternative design strategy: we replaced hydrogen bonding with another important scheme in biological systems, metal-coordination bonding.
In this Account, we provide an overview of the chemistry of metal-mediated base pairing including basic concepts, molecular design, characteristic structures and properties, and possible applications of DNA-based molecular systems. We describe several examples of artificial metal-mediated base pairs, such as Cu2+-mediated hydroxypyridone base pair, H鈥揅u2+鈥?b>H (where H denotes a hydroxypyridone-bearing nucleoside), developed by us and other researchers. To design the metallo-base pairs we carefully chose appropriate combinations of ligand-bearing nucleosides and metal ions. As expected from their stronger bonding through metal coordination, DNA duplexes possessing metallo-base pairs exhibited higher thermal stability than natural hydrogen-bonded DNAs. Furthermore, we could also use metal-mediated base pairs to construct or induce other high-order structures. These features could lead to metal-responsive functional DNA molecules such as artificial DNAzymes and DNA machines. In addition, the metallo-base pairing system is a powerful tool for the construction of homogeneous and heterogeneous metal arrays, which can lead to DNA-based nanomaterials such as electronic wires and magnetic devices. Recently researchers have investigated these systems as enzyme replacements, which may offer an additional contribution to chemical biology and synthetic biology through the expansion of the genetic alphabet.

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