Investigation and improvement of catalytic activity of G-quadruplex/hemin DNAzymes using designed terminal G-tetrads with deoxyadenosine caps.

Chemical Science
Yanwei CaoRenjun Pei

Abstract

It is generally acknowledged that G-quadruplexes (G4s) acquire peroxidase activity upon interaction with hemin. Hemin has been demonstrated to bind selectively to the 3'-terminal G-tetrad of parallel G4s via end-stacking; however, the relationships between different terminal G-tetrads and the catalytic functions of G4/hemin DNAzymes are not fully understood. Herein, the oligonucleotide d(AGGGGA) and its three analogues, d(AGBrGBrGGA), d(AGBrGGGBrA) and d(AGBrGGBrGA) (GBr indicates 8-bromo-2'-deoxyguanosine), were designed. These oligonucleotides form three parallel G4s and one antiparallel G4 without loop regions. The scaffolds had terminal G-tetrads that were either anti-deoxyguanosines (anti-dGs) or syn-deoxyguanosines (syn-dGs) at different proportions. The results showed that the parallel G4 DNAzymes exhibited 2 to 5-fold higher peroxidase activities than the antiparallel G4 DNAzyme, which is due to the absence of the 3'-terminal G-tetrad in the antiparallel G4. Furthermore, the 3'-terminal G-tetrad consisting of four anti-dGs in parallel G4s was more energetically favorable and thus more preferable for hemin stacking compared with that consisting of four syn-dGs. We further investigated the influence of 3' and 5' deoxyaden...Continue Reading

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