Synthesis and evaluation of (1S,2R/1R,2S)-aminocyclohexylglycyl PNAs as conformationally preorganized PNA analogues for DNA/RNA recognition

Govindaraju, T. ; Kumar, Vaijayanti A. ; Ganesh, Krishna N. (2004) Synthesis and evaluation of (1S,2R/1R,2S)-aminocyclohexylglycyl PNAs as conformationally preorganized PNA analogues for DNA/RNA recognition Journal of Organic Chemistry, 69 (6). pp. 1858-1865. ISSN 0022-3263

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Official URL: http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jo035747x

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Abstract

Conformationally constrained cis-aminocyclohexylglycyl PNAs have been designed on the basis of stereospecific imposition of 1,2-cis-cyclohexyl moieties on the aminoethyl segment of aminoethylglycyl PNA (aegPNA). The introduction of the cis-cyclohexyl ring may allow the restriction of the torsion angle ß in the ethylenediamine segment to 60-70° that is prevalent in PNA2:DNA and PNA:RNA complexes. The synthesis of the optically pure monomers (10a and 10b) is achieved by stereoselective enzymatic hydrolysis of an intermediate ester 2. The chiral PNA oligomers were synthesized with (1S,2R/1R,2S)-aminocyclohexylglycyl thymine monomers in the center and N-terminus of aegPNA. Differential gel shift retardation with one or more units of modified monomer units was observed as a result of hybridization of PNA sequences with complementary DNA sequences. Hybridization studies with complementary DNA and RNA sequences using UV-Tm measurements indicate that PNA with (1S,2R)-cyclohexyl stereochemistry enhances selective binding with RNA over DNA as compared to control aegPNA and PNA with the other (1R,2S) isomer.

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