The antitumor antibiotic CC-1065 binds in the minor groove of double-stranded DNA, and the cyclopropapyrroloindole (CPI) subunit of the drug alkylates adjacent adenines at their N-3 position. We have attached racemic CPI to oligodeoxyribonucleotides (ODNs) via a terminal phosphorothioate at either the 3'- or 5'-end of the ODNs. These conjugates were remarkably stable in aqueous solution at neutral pH even in the presence of strong nucleophiles. When a 3'-CPI-ODN conjugate was hybridized to a complementary DNA strand at 37°C, the CPI moiety alkylated nearby adenine bases of the complement efficiently and rapidly, with a half-life of a few minutes. The 5'-CPI-ODN conjugate showed very little reactivity within the duplex. CPI-ODN conjugates should be highly effective sequence-specific inhibitors of single-stranded viral DNA replication or gene selective inhibitors of transcription initiation.
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Lukhtanov, E. A., Podyminogin, M. A., Kutyavin, I. V., Meyer, R. B., & Gamper, H. B. (1996). Rapid and efficient hybridization-triggered crosslinking within a DNA duplex by an oligodeoxyribonucleotide bearing a conjugated cyclopropapyrroloindole. Nucleic Acids Research, 24(4), 683–687. https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/24.4.683
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