RNA-DNA triplex formation by long noncoding RNAs

Y Li, J Syed, H Sugiyama - Cell chemical biology, 2016 - cell.com
Long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) play a pivotal role in the regulation of biological
processes through various mechanisms that are not fully understood. Proposed …

Natural product DNA major groove binders

PL Hamilton, DP Arya - Natural product reports, 2012 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: 1980 to 2011 Major groove recognition of DNA by proteins utilizes the variation in
hydrogen bond donor/acceptor content that makes DNA base-pairs distinguishable from one …

New approaches toward recognition of nucleic acid triple helices

DP Arya - Accounts of chemical research, 2011 - ACS Publications
A DNA duplex can be recognized sequence-specifically in the major groove by an
oligodeoxynucleotide (ODN). The resulting structure is a DNA triple helix, or triplex. The …

Aminoglycoside− Nucleic acid interactions: remarkable stabilization of DNA and RNA triple helices by neomycin

DP Arya, RL Coffee, B Willis… - Journal of the American …, 2001 - ACS Publications
The stabilization of poly (dA)⊙ 2poly (dT) triplex, a 22-base DNA triplex, and poly (rA)⊙
2poly (rU) triple helix by neomycin is reported. The melting temperatures, the association …

Neomycin binding to Watson− Hoogsteen (W− H) DNA triplex groove: a model

DP Arya, L Micovic, I Charles, RL Coffee… - Journal of the …, 2003 - ACS Publications
Neomycin is the most effective aminoglycoside (groove binder) in stabilizing a DNA triple
helix. It stabilizes TAT, as well as mixed base DNA triplexes, better than known DNA minor …

Neomycin− neomycin dimer: an all-carbohydrate scaffold with high affinity for AT-rich DNA duplexes

S Kumar, L Xue, DP Arya - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2011 - ACS Publications
A dimeric neomycin− neomycin conjugate 3 with a flexible linker, 2, 2′-(ethylenedioxy) bis
(ethylamine), has been synthesized and characterized. Dimer 3 can selectively bind to AT …

Thermodynamics of nucleic acid “shape readout” by an aminosugar

H **, E Davis, N Ranjan, L Xue, D Hyde-Volpe… - Biochemistry, 2011 - ACS Publications
Recognition of nucleic acids is important for our understanding of nucleic acid structure as
well as for our understanding of nucleic acid–protein interactions. In addition to the direct …

Neomycin-induced hybrid triplex formation

DP Arya, RL Coffee, I Charles - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2001 - ACS Publications
There has been considerable interest in the stability and specificity of recognition in triplexes
consisting of both RNA and DNA strands. Biologically important triplexes could be …

Synthesis and spectroscopic studies of the aminoglycoside (Neomycin)− Perylene conjugate binding to human telomeric DNA

L Xue, N Ranjan, DP Arya - Biochemistry, 2011 - ACS Publications
Synthesis of a novel perylene− neomycin conjugate (3) and the properties of its binding to
human telomeric G-quadruplex DNA, 5′-d [AG3 (T2AG3) 3](4), are reported. Various …

Click dimers to target HIV TAR RNA conformation

S Kumar, P Kellish, WE Robinson Jr, D Wang… - Biochemistry, 2012 - ACS Publications
A series of neomycin dimers have been synthesized using “click chemistry” with varying
functionality and length in the linker region to target the human immunodeficiency virus type …