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  2. Fluorogenic "photoclick" labelling of DNA using a Cy3 dye

Fluorogenic "photoclick" labelling of DNA using a Cy3 dye

  • Org Biomol Chem. 2018 Nov 7;16(41):7579-7582. doi: 10.1039/c8ob02068j.
Benjamin Lehmann 1 Hans-Achim Wagenknecht 1
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Affiliation

  • 1 Institute of Organic Chemistry, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Fritz-Haber-Weg 6, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany. Wagenknecht@kit.edu.
Abstract

Two 2'-deoxyuridines as new building blocks for automated DNA synthesis carry a small aryltetrazole as "photoclickable" group at their 5-positions. The postsynthetic "photoclick" labeling of such presynthesized DNA using a maleimide-modified Cy3 dye shows an up to 17-fold fluorogenicity due to an energy transfer between the pyrazoline moiety and the Cy3 fluorophore in the DNA products. This concept is also applicable to Other maleimide-modified dyes.

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