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Single-molecule fluorescence detection of a tricyclic nucleoside analogue.

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Article

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Samaan, George N 
Wyllie, Mckenzie K 
Needham, Lisa-Maria  ORCID logo  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8139-5862

Abstract

Fluorescent nucleobase surrogates capable of Watson-Crick hydrogen bonding are essential probes of nucleic acid structure and dynamics, but their limited brightness and short absorption and emission wavelengths have rendered them unsuitable for single-molecule detection. Aiming to improve on these properties, we designed a new tricyclic pyrimidine nucleoside analogue with a push-pull conjugated system and synthesized it in seven sequential steps. The resulting C-linked 8-(diethylamino)benzo[b][1,8]naphthyridin-2(1H)-one nucleoside, which we name ABN, exhibits ε 442 = 20 000 M-1 cm-1 and Φ em,540 = 0.39 in water, increasing to Φ em = 0.50-0.53 when base paired with adenine in duplex DNA oligonucleotides. Single-molecule fluorescence measurements of ABN using both one-photon and two-photon excitation demonstrate its excellent photostability and indicate that the nucleoside is present to > 95% in a bright state with count rates of at least 15 kHz per molecule. This new fluorescent nucleobase analogue, which, in duplex DNA, is the brightest and most red-shifted known, is the first to offer robust and accessible single-molecule fluorescence detection capabilities.

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34 Chemical Sciences, 3406 Physical Chemistry, Biotechnology

Journal Title

Chem Sci

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Journal ISSN

2041-6520
2041-6539

Volume Title

12

Publisher

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)