Templated Metal Catalysis for Single Nucleotide Specific DNA Sequence Detection

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Abstract

A catalytic DNA-templated reaction of hydrolysis of an ester group in an N-modified peptide nucleic acid, which is activated by a Cu2+ complex-PNA, has been discovered and optimized. Both the ester-containing PNA and the metal complex PNA bind neighboring sites on a template DNA. This brings the reacting groups (the ester and the Cu2+ complex) in proximity to each other and accelerates the hydrolysis of the ester approximately 500 times in comparison with its hydrolysis in the absence of the template. The hydrolysis reaction provides >10(2)-fold kinetic discrimination between DNAs that are different from each other at a single nucleotide position. Natural enzyme T4 DNA ligase is slightly less selective. On the basis of this reaction a fully homogeneous and sensitive assay for sequence-specific DNA detection has been developed (10 fmol DNA). Identification of one of four DNAs (variation at one position) can be done in a single experiment. Since the Cu2+ ion is tightly bound in an associate containing the ester PNA, the metal complex PNA, and the template DNA, application of this method in buffers containing other Cu2+-binding ligands, e.g., PCR buffer and physiological buffer, is possible.

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