TY - JOUR
T1 - Enzymatic Formation of an Artificial Base Pair Using a Modified Purine Nucleoside Triphosphate
AU - Flamme, Marie
AU - Röthlisberger, Pascal
AU - Levi-Acobas, Fabienne
AU - Chawla, Mohit
AU - Oliva, Romina
AU - Cavallo, Luigi
AU - Gasser, Gilles
AU - Marlière, Philippe
AU - Herdewijn, Piet
AU - Hollenstein, Marcel
N1 - KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2020-10-30
Acknowledgements: M.F. gratefully acknowledges a fellowship from the doctoral school MTCI University of Paris Descartes. The authors gratefully acknowledge financial support from Institut Pasteur. We thank Mr. Germain Niogret for his help for the preparation of the cover picture featuring this article. The start-up company DNA Script is acknowledged for help in the UPLC-MS analysis of the oligonucleotides. L.C. and M.C.
acknowledge King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) for support and the KAUST Supercomputing Laboratory for providing computational resources of the supercomputer Shaheen II. R.O. thanks MIUR-FFABR (Fondo per il Finanziamento Attività Base di Ricerca) for funding. This work was financially supported by an ERC Consolidator Grant PhotoMedMet to G.G. (GA 681679) and has received support under the program “Investissements d’ Avenir” launched by the French Government and implemented by the ANR with the reference ANR-10-IDEX-0001-02 PSL (G.G.).
PY - 2020/10/22
Y1 - 2020/10/22
N2 - The expansion of the genetic alphabet with additional, unnatural base pairs (UBPs) is an important and long-standing goal in synthetic biology. Nucleotides acting as ligands for the coordination of metal cations have advanced as promising candidates for such an expansion of the genetic alphabet. However, the inclusion of artificial metal base pairs in nucleic acids mainly relies on solid-phase synthesis approaches, and very little is known about polymerase-mediated synthesis. Herein, we report the selective and high yielding enzymatic construction of a silver-mediated base pair (dImC-AgI-dPurP) as well as a two-step protocol for the synthesis of DNA duplexes containing such an artificial metal base pair. Guided by DFT calculations, we also shed light into the mechanism of formation of this artificial base pair as well as into the structural and energetic preferences. The enzymatic synthesis of the dImC-AgI-dPurP artificial metal base pair provides valuable insights for the design of future, more potent systems aiming at expanding the genetic alphabet.
AB - The expansion of the genetic alphabet with additional, unnatural base pairs (UBPs) is an important and long-standing goal in synthetic biology. Nucleotides acting as ligands for the coordination of metal cations have advanced as promising candidates for such an expansion of the genetic alphabet. However, the inclusion of artificial metal base pairs in nucleic acids mainly relies on solid-phase synthesis approaches, and very little is known about polymerase-mediated synthesis. Herein, we report the selective and high yielding enzymatic construction of a silver-mediated base pair (dImC-AgI-dPurP) as well as a two-step protocol for the synthesis of DNA duplexes containing such an artificial metal base pair. Guided by DFT calculations, we also shed light into the mechanism of formation of this artificial base pair as well as into the structural and energetic preferences. The enzymatic synthesis of the dImC-AgI-dPurP artificial metal base pair provides valuable insights for the design of future, more potent systems aiming at expanding the genetic alphabet.
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10754/665713
UR - https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acschembio.0c00396
U2 - 10.1021/acschembio.0c00396
DO - 10.1021/acschembio.0c00396
M3 - Article
C2 - 33090769
SN - 1554-8929
JO - ACS Chemical Biology
JF - ACS Chemical Biology
ER -