肽核酸—基因调控的利器

肽核酸(PNA)是具有类多肽骨架的DNA类似物,PNA的主链骨架是由N(2-氨基乙基)-甘氨酸与核酸碱基通过亚甲基羰基连接而成的。PNA可以特异性地与DNA或RNA杂交,形成稳定的复合体。PNA由于其自身的特点可以对DNA复制、基因转录、翻译等进行有针对的调控,同时作为杂交探针大大提高了遗传学检测和医疗诊断的效率和灵敏度。肽核酸（PNA）特异性地识别和结合互补核酸序列被引进用于医学和生物学的研究,展示了其独特的生化属性,成为了基因奥秘的探索者。     

肽核酸在分子生物学技术中的应用

肽核酸(PNA)作为一种人工合成的核酸类似物,以中性的肽链酰胺2-氨基乙基甘氨酸键取代了DNA中的戊糖磷酸二酯键骨架,其余部分与DNA相同。PNA可通过Watson-Crick碱基配对的形式识别并结合DNA或RNA序列,形成稳定的双螺旋结构。与传统的DNA或RNA相比,PNA具有生物学稳定性高、杂交特异性强、杂合体的稳定性高和杂交速度快等明显优点,使PNA具有良好的物理化学性质和生物学特性,在检测目的核酸序列中单碱基突变、PCR基因分子诊断与检测、荧光原位杂交定量分析、基因芯片和生物传感器技术等调控水平和临床应用上有自己的特点。简要综述了近年来肽核酸在上述分子生物学技术中的运用以及应用前景的展望。     

肽核酸探针技术及其在微生物检测中的应用

肽核酸(Peptide Nucleic Acid,PNA)是近十几年发展起来的以中性酰胺键为骨架的脱氧核糖核酸 (Deoxyribonucleic Acid,DNA)类似物,它能够与DNA和RNA特异性地结合从而可以制备PNA探针.与 DNA探针相比,其杂交的稳定性和特异性增加且能在低盐浓度下进行杂交.因此它能够大大提高微生物学检测和医疗诊断的效率和灵敏度.PNA独特的生化属性已逐渐为世人所瞩目,PNA探针技术也得到了迅速发展,尤其是其在微生物检测领域中的应用.     

γPNA一种新型高效的肽核酸

肽核酸(peptide nucleic acid,PNA)是一种人工合成的具有类多肽骨架的DNA类似物,具有与核酸结合特异性强、组织和细胞内生物稳定性好、半衰期长等优点。通过靶向结合DNA/RNA而抑制其复制、转录和翻译过程,进行基因调控。在PNA骨架结构中γ位点引入带手性的官能团,能形成右手螺旋结构,显著提高其与靶DNA/RNA的杂交特性,这种PNA衍生物称之为γPNA。γPNA的溶解性、热稳定性和特异性等化学与生物学特性明显改善,在基因编辑和作为探针检测等方面具有良好的应用前景。通过对γPNA结构、性质及其研究进展进行总结,以期为γPNA反义应用提供理论依据和参考。     

多肽核酸在分子生物学中的应用

多肽核酸（peptide nucleic acid,PNA）是DNA类似物,其生物性质稳定,不被核酸酶和蛋白酶消化降解。PNA遵循Watson—Crick规则和Hoogsteen规则与单链DNA（RNA）以序列特异性形成极其稳定的杂交二聚体或三聚体。根据PNA的生物特性,以PNA为基础的PNA探针和PCR钳制技术在肿瘤和老化研究以及染色体畸形、细菌和DNA点突变诊断等方面的应用日益增多。PNA协助的携带非天然氨基酸的氨基酰化tRNA的改造已获得成功,并且合成了人工蛋白。作为反义抑制药物,PNA在抑制细菌和病毒的基因表达以及蛋白质翻译方面也取得了初步成果。基于PNA的由RNA触发的药物释放系统设计巧妙,是十分有希望的靶向治疗药物。     

肽核酸与核酸分子杂交的模式及其在基因诊断领域中的应用

在发明肽核酸(peptide nucleic acid,PNA)后的短短十年间,由于PNA分子独特的生物学性能,使之可以与DNA及RNA分子通过不同的机制形成稳定的复合物,导致PNA在基因诊断领域有得天独厚的优势。本文综述了PNA与核酸分子杂交的几种不同模式以及最近几年PNA在基因诊断领域的一些最新进展。     

肽核酸的分子生物学效应及应用

肽核酸(PNA)是一类以酰胺键连接骨架替代核酸中核糖磷酸二酯键骨架构成的核酸类似物,其中N-乙基甘氨酸骨架PNA与核酸链以Waston-Crick碱基配对形式稳定互补结合,具有广泛生物学效应,包括调节DNA识别蛋白质的功能以及调节转录和翻译.在分子生物学研究中PNA作为新的工具在多方面得到应用.除它的DNA(RNA)结合特性外PNA在生物稳定性、细胞摄取、结构修饰多方面的研究进展显示出作为基因调节药物具有良好前景.     

肽核酸的特性及作用

肽核酸（peptide nucleic acid,PNA)是一类DNA结构类似物,能与DNA和RNA特异性杂交。它通过与DNA结合而抑制基因转录,通过与mRNA结合而阻止蛋白质的合成;同时,PNA不易被核酸酶和蛋白酶降解,所有这些显示出其作为反基因药物和反义药物的良好应用前景。     

烟草花叶病毒辽宁分离物Northern杂交检测体系的建立

为了建立烟草花叶病毒辽宁分离物(TMV-LN)的高特异性、高灵敏度的分子杂交检测体系,从粗提纯的TMV-LN粒子中提取RNA,设计特异性引物通过RT-PCR扩增TMV-LN的CP和3'端非翻译区域,将片段连至p UC119载体获得重组质粒p UCTMV-PP,体外转录获得地高辛(DIG)标记的TMV-LN正义链RNA杂交检测探针,同时构建DNA检测探针作为对照。采用点印迹(Dot-blot)杂交和Northern杂交对比RNA探针和DNA探针对TMV-LN的检测特异性和灵敏性。检测结果表明,RNA探针和DNA探针在点印记杂交和Northern杂交中均表现出良好的检测特异性,RNA探针在检测灵敏度方面要略好于DNA探针,且点印迹杂交体系在病毒定性方面较为快捷,Northern杂交体系在病毒基因组RNA的定量方面具有明显优势。     

Modulation of DNA and RNA by PNA

Peptide nucleic acid (PNA), a synthetic DNA mimic that is devoid of the (deoxy)ribose-phosphate backbone yet still perfectly retains the ability to recognize natural nucleic acids in a sequence-specific fashion, can be employed as a tool to modulate gene expressions via several different mechanisms. The unique strength of PNA compared to other oligonucleotide analogs is its ability to bind to nucleic acid targets with secondary structures such as double-stranded and quadruplex DNA as well as RNA. This digest aims to introduce general readers to the advancement in the area of modulation of DNA/RNA functions by PNA, its current status and future research opportunities, with emphasis on recent progress in new targeting modes of structured DNA/RNA by PNA and PNA-mediated gene editing.     

修饰性肽核酸的细胞转运

肽核酸是人工合成的寡核苷酸类似物,以N-(2-氨乙基)甘氨酸结构单元替代DNA分子中的戊糖-磷酸结构。与天然核酸相比,肽核酸可以更高效地与DNA或RNA特异性杂交,在分子生物学和基因药物领域具有良好的应用前景。但是,肽核酸骨架呈电中性,难以高效穿过细胞膜,这成为工程应用的最大障碍。为了改善肽核酸的细胞转运性能,对肽核酸进行化学修饰是近年来的研究热点。结合近十年来文献报道和本实验室的工作,对肽核酸的骨架修饰和配合物结合修饰两类增强细胞转运的修饰方法进行综述,并对修饰性肽核酸细胞转运研究中存在的问题以及未来的研究趋势及其应用提出了见解。     

Peptide nucleic acids: deoxyribonucleic acid mimics with a peptide backbone

This tutorial briefly describes a new class of synthetic biopolymer, which is referred to as peptide nucleic acid (PNA). In PNA, individual nucleobases are linked to an achiral neutral peptide backbone. PNA exhibits the hybridization characteristic (e.g., Watson—Crick duplex formation) of DNA. The achiral peptide backbone provides similar interbase distances as natural DNA, and adequate flexibility to permit base pair interactions with complementary RNA or DNA strands. Several potential applications of PNA oligomers in biotechnology are suggested. These include the use of PNAs as a probe for specific recognition of a DNA or RNA sequence selective, purification of nucleic acids via designed high affinity binding to PNA, screening for DNA mutations, and as possible therapeutic agents.     

PNA technology

Peptide nucleic acids (PNA) are deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) mimics with a pseudopeptide backbone. PNA is an extremely good structural mimic of DNA (or of ribonucleic acid [RNA]), and PNA oligomers are able to form very stable duplex structures with Watson-Crick complementary DNA and RNA (or PNA) oligomers, and they can also bind to targets in duplex DNA by helix invasion. Therefore, these molecules are of interest in many areas of chemistry, biology, and medicine, including drug discovery, genetic diagnostics, molecular recognition, and the origin of life. Recent progress in studies of PNA properties and applications is reviewed.     

肽核酸——一种新型的反义物质

肽核酸是以肽为骨架的一种新型ＤＮＡ模拟物。已经证明肽核酸具有与ＤＮＡ和ＲＮＡ结合的高度亲合性、良好的稳定性及能方便地固相合成等特性。在反义技术和基因治疗中有着很好的前景。本文综述了肽核酸的生物化学特性及其在反义技术方面的应用。     

Synthesis of Chiral Heteronucleotide ONA Sequences by a Fmoc/Boc-Based Submonomeric Strategy

Peptide nucleic acid (PNA) is a DNA analog able to form hybridization complexes with complementary DNA or RNA strands. Many PNAs have been described in recent years, particularly chiral PNA analogs. Chiral heteronucleotide ONA (Orn backbone PNA) is an important tool in the antisensing field, but was not been fully explored yet. In the present work, we performed studies toward the synthesis of chiral heteronucleotide ONA sequences by utilizing a Fmoc/Boc-based submonomer approach on solid support. The desired oligomers with different nucleic content and length were obtained in very good yields and high purity. Specific binding to the complimentary ssDNA oligomers was demonstrated.     

The influence of helix morphology on co-operative polyamide backbone conformational flexibility in peptide nucleic acid complexes.

A systematic analysis of peptide nucleic acid (PNA) complexes deposited in the Protein Data Bank has been carried out using a set of contiguous atom torsion angle definitions. The analysis is complemented by molecular mechanics adiabatic potential energy calculations on hybrid PNA-nucleic acid model systems. Hitherto unobserved correlations in the values of the (alpha and epsilon) dihedral angles flanking the backbone secondary amide bond are found. This dihedral coupling forms the basis of a PNA backbone conformation classification scheme. Six conformations are thus characterised in experimental structures. Helix morphology is found to exert a significant influence on backbone conformation and flexibility: Watson-Crick PNA strands in complexes with DNA and RNA, that possess A-like base-pair stacking, adopt backbone conformations distinct from those in PNA.DNA-PNA triplex and PNA-PNA duplex P-helix forms. Solvation effects on Watson-Crick PNA backbone conformation in heterotriplexes are discussed and the possible involvement of inter-conformational transitions and dihedral angle uncoupling in asymmetric heteroduplex base-pair breathing is suggested.     

肽核酸在基因诊断和治疗中的研究进展

肽核酸是一种以多肽为骨架,类似核苷酸的物质。它不带电荷,能抵抗核酸酶和蛋白酶的降解;它与DNA或RNA杂交特异性很强,可与靶基因形成稳定的三螺旋结构。肽核酸能够抑制基因的复制、转录、逆转录和翻译过程,在基因诊断及治疗方面有着广泛的用途。