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Aromatic N versus aromatic F: bioisosterism discovered in RNA base pairing interactions leads to a novel class of universal base analogs

The thermodynamics of base pairing is of fundamental importance. Fluorinated base analogs are valuable tools for investigating pairing interactions. To understand the influence of direct base–base interactions in relation to the role of water, pairing free energies between natural nucleobases and fl...

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Autores principales: Koller, Alrun N., Božilović, Jelena, Engels, Joachim W., Gohlke, Holger
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2875010/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20081201
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkp1237
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author Koller, Alrun N.
Božilović, Jelena
Engels, Joachim W.
Gohlke, Holger
author_facet Koller, Alrun N.
Božilović, Jelena
Engels, Joachim W.
Gohlke, Holger
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description The thermodynamics of base pairing is of fundamental importance. Fluorinated base analogs are valuable tools for investigating pairing interactions. To understand the influence of direct base–base interactions in relation to the role of water, pairing free energies between natural nucleobases and fluorinated analogs are estimated by potential of mean force calculations. Compared to pairing of AU and GC, pairing involving fluorinated analogs is unfavorable by 0.5–1.0 kcal mol(−1). Decomposing the pairing free energies into enthalpic and entropic contributions reveals fundamental differences for Watson–Crick pairs compared to pairs involving fluorinated analogs. These differences originate from direct base–base interactions and contributions of water. Pairing free energies of fluorinated base analogs with natural bases are less unfavorable by 0.5–1.0 kcal mol(−1) compared to non-fluorinated analogs. This is attributed to stabilizing C–F(…)H–N dipolar interactions and stronger N(…)H–C hydrogen bonds, demonstrating direct and indirect influences of fluorine. 7-methyl-7H-purine and its 9-deaza analog (Z) have been suggested as members of a new class of non-fluorinated base analogs. Z is found to be the least destabilizing universal base in the context of RNA known to date. This is the first experimental evidence for nitrogen-containing heterocylces as bioisosteres of aromatic rings bearing fluorine atoms.
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spelling pubmed-28750102010-05-24 Aromatic N versus aromatic F: bioisosterism discovered in RNA base pairing interactions leads to a novel class of universal base analogs Koller, Alrun N. Božilović, Jelena Engels, Joachim W. Gohlke, Holger Nucleic Acids Res Synthetic Biology and Chemistry The thermodynamics of base pairing is of fundamental importance. Fluorinated base analogs are valuable tools for investigating pairing interactions. To understand the influence of direct base–base interactions in relation to the role of water, pairing free energies between natural nucleobases and fluorinated analogs are estimated by potential of mean force calculations. Compared to pairing of AU and GC, pairing involving fluorinated analogs is unfavorable by 0.5–1.0 kcal mol(−1). Decomposing the pairing free energies into enthalpic and entropic contributions reveals fundamental differences for Watson–Crick pairs compared to pairs involving fluorinated analogs. These differences originate from direct base–base interactions and contributions of water. Pairing free energies of fluorinated base analogs with natural bases are less unfavorable by 0.5–1.0 kcal mol(−1) compared to non-fluorinated analogs. This is attributed to stabilizing C–F(…)H–N dipolar interactions and stronger N(…)H–C hydrogen bonds, demonstrating direct and indirect influences of fluorine. 7-methyl-7H-purine and its 9-deaza analog (Z) have been suggested as members of a new class of non-fluorinated base analogs. Z is found to be the least destabilizing universal base in the context of RNA known to date. This is the first experimental evidence for nitrogen-containing heterocylces as bioisosteres of aromatic rings bearing fluorine atoms. Oxford University Press 2010-05 2010-01-15 /pmc/articles/PMC2875010/ /pubmed/20081201 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkp1237 Text en © The Author(s) 2010. Published by Oxford University Press. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5), which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Synthetic Biology and Chemistry
Koller, Alrun N.
Božilović, Jelena
Engels, Joachim W.
Gohlke, Holger
Aromatic N versus aromatic F: bioisosterism discovered in RNA base pairing interactions leads to a novel class of universal base analogs
title Aromatic N versus aromatic F: bioisosterism discovered in RNA base pairing interactions leads to a novel class of universal base analogs
title_full Aromatic N versus aromatic F: bioisosterism discovered in RNA base pairing interactions leads to a novel class of universal base analogs
title_fullStr Aromatic N versus aromatic F: bioisosterism discovered in RNA base pairing interactions leads to a novel class of universal base analogs
title_full_unstemmed Aromatic N versus aromatic F: bioisosterism discovered in RNA base pairing interactions leads to a novel class of universal base analogs
title_short Aromatic N versus aromatic F: bioisosterism discovered in RNA base pairing interactions leads to a novel class of universal base analogs
title_sort aromatic n versus aromatic f: bioisosterism discovered in rna base pairing interactions leads to a novel class of universal base analogs
topic Synthetic Biology and Chemistry
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2875010/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20081201
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkp1237
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