Sequence dependent energy transfer from DNA to an anthryl probe: discrimination between GC and IC sequences

Abstract

Singlet–singlet energy transfer from ionosine-cytosine sequences of DNA to an anthryl probe has been observed, but no energy transfer occurs from guanine-cytosine sequences.

References

1. Special issue on RNA/DNA Cleavage, Chem. Rev., 1998, 98; H. Suenaga and K. Nakashima, J. Chem. Soc., Perkin Trans. 1, 1998, 1263; H. H. Thorp, C. C. Cheng and J. G. Goll, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1995, 117, 2970; T. D. Tullius, in Bioorganic Chemistry: Nucleic Acids, ed. S. M. Hecht, OUP, New York, 1996.
2. H. Tamura and H. Fujita, Chem. Lett., 1997, 8, 711; M. J. Absalon, W. Wu and J. Stubbe, Biochemistry, 1995, 34, 2076; E. Farinas, J. D. Tan, N. Baidya and P. K. Mascharak, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1993, 115, 2996; T. Saito, M. Kitamura and T. Shimidzu, Nucleosides Nucleotides, 1994, 13, 1607.
3. C. V. Kumar and E. Asuncion, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1993, 115, 8547; C. V. Kumar and E. Asuncion, J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Commun., 1992, 470.
4. E. H. Asuncion, PhD Thesis, University of Connecticut, 1994.
5. J. Eisinger, J. Photochem. Photobiol., 1968, 7, 597; S. M. Bishop, M. Malone and D. Phillips, J. Chem. Soc., Chem. Commun., 1994, 871.
6. Photochemistry and Photobiology of Nucleic Acids, ed. S. Y. Wang, Academic Press, New York, vol. 1, p. 23.
7. I. Saito, M. Takayama, H. Sugiyama and K. Nakatani, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1995, 117, 6406; H. Sugiyama and L. Saito, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 1996, 118, 7063.
8. C. V. Kumar, W. B. Tan and P. W. Betts, J. Inorg. Biochem., 1997, 66, 177.