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ArticlePloS one2020

Dual DNA binding mode of a turn-on red fluorescent probe thiazole coumarin.

Sudakshina Ganguly, Debasis Ghosh, Nagarjun Narayanaswamy, T Govindaraju, Gautam Basu

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Article in PloS one, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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Sudakshina GangulyDepartment of Biophysics, Bose Institute, Kolkata, India.
Debasis GhoshBioorganic Chemistry Laboratory, New Chemistry Unit, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bengaluru, India.
Nagarjun NarayanaswamyBioorganic Chemistry Laboratory, New Chemistry Unit, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bengaluru, India.
T GovindarajuBioorganic Chemistry Laboratory, New Chemistry Unit, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research, Bengaluru, India.
Gautam BasuDepartment of Biophysics, Bose Institute, Kolkata, India.ORCID 0000-0002-6301-1618
Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research · INBose Institute · IN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Turn-on fluorescent probes show enhanced emission upon DNA binding, advocating their importance in imaging cellular DNA. We have probed the DNA binding mode of thiazole-coumarin (TC) conjugate, a recently reported hemicyanine-based turn-on red fluorescent probe, using a number of biophysical techniques and a series of short oligonucleotides. TC exhibited increased fluorescence anisotropy and decreased absorbance (~50%) at low [DNA]/[TC] ratio. Although the observed hypochromicity and the saturating value of [DNA base pair]:[TC] ratio is consistent with a previous study that suggested intercalation to be the DNA binding mode of TC, a distinctly different and previously unreported binding mode was observed at higher ratios of [DNA]:[TC]. With further addition of DNA, only oligonucleotides containing AnTn or (AT)n stretches showed further change-decreased hypochromicity, red shifted absorption peaks and concomitant fluorescence enhancement, saturating at about 1:1 [DNA]: [TC]. 1H-NMR chemical shift perturbation patterns and H1'-H6/H8 NOE cross-peaks of the 1:1 complex indicated minor groove binding by TC. ITC showed the 1:1 DNA binding event to be endothermic (ΔH° ~ 2 kcal/mol) and entropy driven (ΔS° ~ 32 cal/mol/K). Taken together, the experimental data suggest a dual DNA binding mode by TC. At low [DNA]/[TC] ratio, the dominant mode is intercalation. This switches to minor groove binding at higher [DNA]/[TC], only for sequences containing AnTn or (AT)n stretches. Turn-on fluorescence results only in the previously unreported minor groove bound state. Our results allow a better understanding of DNA-ligand interaction for the newly reported turn-on probe TC.

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BenzothiazolesBinding SitesCarbocyaninesCoumarinsDNAFluorescent DyesNucleic Acid ConformationThermodynamicsBenzothiazolesCarbocyaninescoumarinCoumarinsDNAFluorescent Dyesthiazole red

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PMID32941495
PMCPMC7497988
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