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  • Title: Forced Intercalation Peptide Nucleic Acid Probes for the Detection of an Adenosine-to-Inosine Modification.
    Author: Swenson CS, Argueta-Gonzalez HS, Sterling SA, Robichaux R, Knutson SD, Heemstra JM.
    Journal: ACS Omega; 2023 Jan 10; 8(1):238-248. PubMed ID: 36643573.
    Abstract:
    The deamination of adenosine to inosine is an important modification in nucleic acids that functionally recodes the identity of the nucleobase to a guanosine. Current methods to analyze and detect this single nucleotide change, such as sequencing and PCR, typically require time-consuming or costly procedures. Alternatively, fluorescent "turn-on" probes that result in signal enhancement in the presence of target are useful tools for real-time detection and monitoring of nucleic acid modification. Here we describe forced-intercalation PNA (FIT-PNA) probes that are designed to bind to inosine-containing nucleic acids and use thiazole orange (TO), 4-dimethylamino-naphthalimide (4DMN), and malachite green (MG) fluorogenic dyes to detect A-to-I editing events. We show that incorporation of the dye as a surrogate base negatively affects the duplex stability but does not abolish binding to targets. We then determined that the identity of the adjacent nucleobase and temperature affect the overall signal and fluorescence enhancement in the presence of inosine, achieving an 11-fold increase, with a limit of detection (LOD) of 30 pM. We determine that TO and 4DMN probes are viable candidates to enable selective inosine detection for biological applications.
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