Impact of Chirality and Position of Lysine Conjugation in Triplex-Forming Peptide Nucleic Acids

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Christopher A Ryan, Eriks Rozners

Abstract

Conjugation with cationic lysine residues improves the biophysical and biological properties of peptide nucleic acids (PNAs). A single lysine is routinely used to improve the solubility and prevent aggregation of the neutral and hydrophobic amide backbone of PNA. Literature precedents include the attachment of lysine at either the N- or the C-terminus. Moreover, conjugation with short lysine peptides (four to eight residues) improves the cellular uptake of PNA akin to more complex cell-penetrating peptides. Herein, we report a systematic study of the effect of lysine location (N- vs C-terminus) and chirality (d- vs l-) on triple-helical binding of PNA to double-stranded RNA and DNA (dsRNA and dsDNA). The results confirmed our earlier findings that conjugation with lysine significantly increased the stability of PNA-dsRNA and PNA-dsDNA triplexes and that PNA affinity for dsRNA was about an order of magnitude higher than for the same sequence of dsDNA. In contrast, conjugation of PNA with noncharged amino acids decreased the affinity of PNA. Surprisingly, neither the location nor the chirality of lysine had significant impact on PNA affinity for either dsRNA or dsDNA. The results are consistent with the lack of chiral preorganiza...Continue Reading

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