Synthesis and fluorescence properties of DANP-conjugated DNA probes for SNPs detection

BIOL 95

Akio Kobori, Takashi Mori, Asako Yamayoshi, and Akira Murakami, akiram@kit.ac.jp. Department of Biomolecular Engineering, Kyoto Institute of Technology, gosyokaido-cho, Matsugasaki, Sakyo, Kyoto, 606-8585, Japan
Recently, there has been an increased interest in single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) due to the biological and clinical importance. Fluorescence-labeled DNA probes have widely used in SNPs typing methods. 1, 8-Diaminonaphthyridine (DANP) derivative, whose emission spectrum was shifted by 30 nm in the presence of cytosine-bulged oligonucleotide, was used for the detection of pyrimidine-bulged oligonucleotide. We here report the synthesis and fluorescence properties of DANP-conjugated DNA probes for SNPs detection. DANP derivatives having aminoalkyl groups were synthesized as described previously and incorporated via carbamate linkage into 5'-hydroxy group of oligodeoxynucleotides attached on solid support (DANP-ODNs). DANP-ODNs selectively emit a strong fluorescence in the presence of fully matched duplex, which has cytosine opposite DANP. These results indicated that DANP-ODNs were useful probe for the detection of cytosine-related SNPs.