Study of Photochemical Cytosine to Uracil Transition via Ultrafast Photo-Cross-Linking Using Vinylcarbazole Derivatives in Duplex DNA
Gene therapies, including genome editing, RNAi, anti-sense technology and chemical DNA editing are becoming major methods for the treatment of genetic disorders. Techniques like CRISPR-Cas9, zinc finger nuclease (ZFN) and transcription activator-like effector-based nuclease (TALEN) are a few such en...
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author | Siddhant Sethi Shigetaka Nakamura Kenzo Fujimoto |
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description | Gene therapies, including genome editing, RNAi, anti-sense technology and chemical DNA editing are becoming major methods for the treatment of genetic disorders. Techniques like CRISPR-Cas9, zinc finger nuclease (ZFN) and transcription activator-like effector-based nuclease (TALEN) are a few such enzymatic techniques. Most enzymatic genome editing techniques have their disadvantages. Thus, non-enzymatic and non-invasive technologies for nucleic acid editing has been reported in this study which might possess some advantages over the older methods of DNA manipulation. 3-cyanovinyl carbazole (CNVK) based nucleic acid editing takes advantage of photo-cross-linking between a target pyrimidine and the CNVK to afford deamination of cytosine and convert it to uracil. This method previously required the use of high temperatures but, in this study, it has been optimized to take place at physiological conditions. Different counter bases (inosine, guanine and cytosine) complementary to the target cytosine were used, along with derivatives of CNVK (NH2VK and OHVK) to afford the deamination at physiological conditions. |
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spelling | doaj.art-c13326976b734d6ea7c3750586a946062022-12-22T03:41:41ZengMDPI AGMolecules1420-30492018-04-0123482810.3390/molecules23040828molecules23040828Study of Photochemical Cytosine to Uracil Transition via Ultrafast Photo-Cross-Linking Using Vinylcarbazole Derivatives in Duplex DNASiddhant Sethi0Shigetaka Nakamura1Kenzo Fujimoto2Department of Advanced Science and Technology, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, 1-1 Asahidai, Nomi, Ishikawa 923-1211, JapanDepartment of Advanced Science and Technology, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, 1-1 Asahidai, Nomi, Ishikawa 923-1211, JapanDepartment of Advanced Science and Technology, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, 1-1 Asahidai, Nomi, Ishikawa 923-1211, JapanGene therapies, including genome editing, RNAi, anti-sense technology and chemical DNA editing are becoming major methods for the treatment of genetic disorders. Techniques like CRISPR-Cas9, zinc finger nuclease (ZFN) and transcription activator-like effector-based nuclease (TALEN) are a few such enzymatic techniques. Most enzymatic genome editing techniques have their disadvantages. Thus, non-enzymatic and non-invasive technologies for nucleic acid editing has been reported in this study which might possess some advantages over the older methods of DNA manipulation. 3-cyanovinyl carbazole (CNVK) based nucleic acid editing takes advantage of photo-cross-linking between a target pyrimidine and the CNVK to afford deamination of cytosine and convert it to uracil. This method previously required the use of high temperatures but, in this study, it has been optimized to take place at physiological conditions. Different counter bases (inosine, guanine and cytosine) complementary to the target cytosine were used, along with derivatives of CNVK (NH2VK and OHVK) to afford the deamination at physiological conditions.http://www.mdpi.com/1420-3049/23/4/828deaminationC to U transitioncyanovinylcarbazolephoto-cross-linkinggenome editing |
spellingShingle | Siddhant Sethi Shigetaka Nakamura Kenzo Fujimoto Study of Photochemical Cytosine to Uracil Transition via Ultrafast Photo-Cross-Linking Using Vinylcarbazole Derivatives in Duplex DNA Molecules deamination C to U transition cyanovinylcarbazole photo-cross-linking genome editing |
title | Study of Photochemical Cytosine to Uracil Transition via Ultrafast Photo-Cross-Linking Using Vinylcarbazole Derivatives in Duplex DNA |
title_full | Study of Photochemical Cytosine to Uracil Transition via Ultrafast Photo-Cross-Linking Using Vinylcarbazole Derivatives in Duplex DNA |
title_fullStr | Study of Photochemical Cytosine to Uracil Transition via Ultrafast Photo-Cross-Linking Using Vinylcarbazole Derivatives in Duplex DNA |
title_full_unstemmed | Study of Photochemical Cytosine to Uracil Transition via Ultrafast Photo-Cross-Linking Using Vinylcarbazole Derivatives in Duplex DNA |
title_short | Study of Photochemical Cytosine to Uracil Transition via Ultrafast Photo-Cross-Linking Using Vinylcarbazole Derivatives in Duplex DNA |
title_sort | study of photochemical cytosine to uracil transition via ultrafast photo cross linking using vinylcarbazole derivatives in duplex dna |
topic | deamination C to U transition cyanovinylcarbazole photo-cross-linking genome editing |
url | http://www.mdpi.com/1420-3049/23/4/828 |
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