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Photoswitchable molecular glue for DNA
Dohno, Chikara,Uno, Shin-Nosuke,Nakatani, Kazuhiko
, p. 11898 - 11899 (2007)
DNA molecular glue is a small synthetic ligand that can adhere two single-stranded DNAs that do not spontaneously hybridize with each other. For reversible control of DNA hybridization by an external light stimulus, we have developed a photoswitchable molecular glue for DNA. The photoswitchable molecular glue, NCDA, consists of two guanine-recognizing naphthyridine moieties connected with a photochromic azobenzene unit. Azobenzene undergoes a reversible cis/trans isomerization by photoirradiation, which changes the relative orientations and positions of the naphthyridine moieties, resulting into photoswitching of NCDA binding to the DNA containing GG-mismatch. NCDA in the cis configuration binds to a GG-mismatch sequence and induces the formation of the DNA duplex. Using the photoswitchable binding property of NCDA, the hybridization event of two natural unmodified DNAs can be reversibly controlled by an external light stimulus. Copyright
Synthesis and properties of a series of β-cyclodextrin/nitrone spin traps for improved superoxide detection
Poulhès, Florent,Rizzato, Egon,Bernasconi, Patrick,Rosas, Roselyne,Viel, Stéphane,Jicsinszky, Laszlo,Rockenbauer, Antal,Bardelang, David,Siri, Didier,Gaudel-Siri, Anouk,Karoui, Hakim,Hardy, Mica?l,Ouari, Olivier
, p. 6358 - 6366 (2017)
Three new DEPMPO-based spin traps have been designed and synthesized for improved superoxide detection, each carrying a cyclodextrin (CD) moiety but with a different alkyl chain on the phosphorus atom or with a long spacer arm. EPR spectroscopy allowed us to estimate the half-life of the superoxide spin adducts which is close to the value previously reported for CD-DEPMPO (t1/2 ≈ 50-55 min under the conditions investigated). The spectra are typical of superoxide adducts (almost no features of the HO adduct that usually forms with time for other nitrone spin traps such as DMPO) and we show that at 250 μM, the new spin trap enables the reliable detection of superoxide by 1 scan at the position opposite to the corresponding spin trap without the CD moiety. The resistance of the spin adducts to a reduction process has been evaluated, and the superoxide spin adducts are sensitive to ascorbate and glutathione (GSH), but not to glutathione peroxidase/GSH, reflecting the exposed nature of the nitroxide moiety to the bulk solvent. To understand these results, 2D-ROESY NMR studies and molecular dynamics pointed to a shallow or surface self-inclusion of the nitrone spin traps and of nitroxide spin adducts presumably due to the high flexibility of the permethyl-β-CD rim.
