Chemical methods for the site-specific cleavage of genomic DNA
- Creators
- Dervan, Peter B.
- Others:
- Sarma, Ramaswamy H.
- Sarma, Mukti H.
Abstract
Pyrimidine oligodeoxyribonucleotides bind duplex DNA at homopurine sites to form a triple helix structure. The pyrimidine oligodeoxyribonucleotide is oriented in the major groove of DNA parallel to the Watson-Crick purine strand. Specificity is due to Hoogsteen hydrogen bonds wherein T recognizes A-T base pairs (T•AT triplet) and protonated C recognizes GC base pairs (C + GC triplet). Oligonucleotides 18 bases in length, equipped with a DNA cleaving function EDTA•Fe at the 5' end. cause sequence specific double strand breaks at one site in the 48.5 kbp bacteriophage λ genome. Due to the length of the recognition site, in a formal sense. this is 10^6 times more sequence-specific that restriction enzymes. The triple helix motif can be extended from homopurine target sequences to mixed sequences. Oligonucleotide directed triple helix formation could be useful for mapping genomic DNA.
Additional Information
© 1990 Adenine Press. We thank the National Institutes of Health (GM-35724), the Office of Naval Research, the Parsons Foundation, Burroughs Wellcome, and Merck for generous financial support.Additional details
- Eprint ID
- 67185
- Resolver ID
- CaltechAUTHORS:20160519-124144205
- GM-35724
- NIH
- Office of Naval Research (ONR)
- Ralph M. Parsons Foundation
- Burroughs Wellcome
- Merck
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2016-05-20Created from EPrint's datestamp field
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2019-11-26Created from EPrint's last_modified field