Intercalation-enhanced "Click" Crosslinking of DNA.

Angew Chem Int Ed Engl

Department of Chemistry, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057, Zurich, Switzerland.

Published: November 2018

DNA-DNA cross-linking agents constitute an important family of chemotherapeutics that non-specifically react with endogenous nucleophiles and therefore exhibit undesirable side effects. Here we report a cationic Sondheimer diyne derivative "DiMOC" that exhibits weak, reversible intercalation into duplex DNA (K =15 μm) where it undergoes tandem strain-promoted cross-linking of azide-containing DNA to give DNA-DNA interstrand crosslinks (ICLs) with an exceptionally high apparent rate constant k =2.1×10  m  s . This represents a 21 000-fold rate enhancement as compared the reaction between DIMOC and 5-(azidomethyl)-2'-deoxyuridine (AmdU) nucleoside. As single agents, 5'-bispivaloyloxymethyl (POM)-AmdU and DiMOC exhibited low cytotoxicity, but highly toxic DNA-DNA ICLs were generated by metabolic incorporation of AmdU groups into cellular DNA, followed by treatment of the cells with DiMOC. These results provide the first examples of intercalation-enhanced bioorthogonal chemical reactions on DNA, and furthermore, the first strain-promoted double click (SPDC) reactions inside of living cells.

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