Tetrazolylpyrene unnatural nucleoside as a human telomeric multimeric G-quadruplex selective switch-on fluorescent sensor†
Subhendu Sekhar Bag,Manoj Kumar Pradhan,Sangita Talukdar
Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry Pub Date : 10/23/2017 00:00:00 , DOI:10.1039/C7OB02433A
Abstract

We report herein the specific sensing of dimeric H45 G-quadruplex DNA via a fluorescence light-up response using fluorescent tetrazolylpyrene nucleoside (TzPyBDo) as a probe. The strong binding of the probe via an intercalative stacking interaction inside the connecting loop of two G-quadruplex units of H45 and the discrimination to other monomeric and long DNA duplexes are accompanied by a drastic enhancement of the emission intensity without compromising the conformation and stability.

Graphical abstract: Tetrazolylpyrene unnatural nucleoside as a human telomeric multimeric G-quadruplex selective switch-on fluorescent sensor