Enhanced recognition of cystic fibrosis W1282X DNA point mutation by chiral peptide nucleic acid probes by a surface plasmon resonance biosensor

21 November 2003

journal article
research article
Published by Wiley in Journal of Molecular Recognition

Vol. 17 (1) , 76-84
https://doi.org/10.1002/jmr.646

Abstract

Peptide nucleic acids (PNAs) containing an insert of three chiral monomers based on D‐lysine (‘chiral box’) were synthesized and used as probes in Biospecific Interaction Analysis (BIA) for the recognition of DNA containing the W1282X point mutation of the cystic fibrosis gene. Hybridization experiments carried out in solution showed enhanced mismatch recognition when compared with the analogous achiral PNAs and oligonucleotides. The signal intensity was lower, but the selectivity of the Biacore response was found to be much higher than that observed with achiral PNAs. The newly designed chiral PNA probes were also found to hybridize with a 1:1 mixture of normal (N‐W1282X) and mutated (M‐W1282X) DNA oligomers immobilized on the biosensor, thus allowing discrimination not only between a normal and a mutated sequence (healthy/homozygous), but also between homo‐ and heterozygous individuals. These results suggest that ‘chiral box’ PNAs are potential powerful tools for the analysis of single point mutations of biological/biomedical relevance. Copyright © 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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