Determination of interactions between structured nucleic acids by fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET): selection of target sites for functional nucleic acids.
AUTOR(ES)
Ota, N
RESUMO
We previously developed a method for monitoring the integrity of oligonucleotides in vitro and in vivo by quantitating fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) between two different fluorochromes attached to a single oligonucleotide. As an extension of this analysis, we examined changes in the extent of FRET in the presence or absence of target nucleic acids with a specific sequence and a higher-ordered structure. In this system FRET was maximal when probes were free in solution and a decrease in FRET was evidence of successful hybridization. We used a single-stranded oligodeoxyribonucleotide labeled at its 5'-end and its 3'-end with 6-carboxyfluorescein and 6-carboxytetramethylrhodamine, respectively. Incubation of the probe with a single-stranded complementary oligonucleotide reduced the FRET. Moreover, a small change in FRET was also observed when the probe was incubated with an oligonucleotide in which the target site had been embedded in a stable hairpin structure. The decrease in the extent of FRET depended on the length of the stem region of the hairpin structure and also on the higher-ordered structure of the probe. These results indicate that this spectrofluorometric method and FRET probes can be used to estimate the efficacy of hybridization between a probe and its target site within highly ordered structures. This conclusion based on changes in FRET was confirmed by gel-shift assays.
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