PMID: 9540218Apr 16, 1998Paper

Thionucleobases as intrinsic photoaffinity probes of nucleic acid structure and nucleic acid-protein interactions

Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology. B, Biology
A FavreP Laugâa

Abstract

In the past few years thionucleobases have been extensively used as intrinsic photolabels to probe the structure in solution of folded RNA molecules and to identify contacts within nucleic acids and/or between nucleic acids and proteins, in complex nucleoprotein assemblies. These thio residues such as 4-thiouracil found in E. coli tRNA and its non-natural congeners 4-thiothymine, 6-thioguanine and 6-mercaptopurine absorb light at wavelengths longer than 320 nm and, thus, can be selectively photoactivated. Synthetic or enzymatic procedures have been established, allowing the random or site-specific incorporation of thionucleotide(s) within a RNA (DNA) chain which, in most cases, retains unaltered structural and biological properties. Owing to the high photoreactivity of their triplet state (intersystem yield close to unity), 4-thiouracil and 4-thiothymine derivatives exhibit a high photocrosslinking ability towards pyrimidines (particularly thymine) but also purines. From the nature of the photoproducts obtained in base or nucleotide mixtures and in dinucleotides, the main photochemical pathway was identified as a (2 + 2) photoaddition of the excited C-S bond onto the 5, 6 double bond of pyrimidines yielding thietane intermediat...Continue Reading

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