a Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, PR China;b Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing
Abstract:
Phenylazonaphthalene peptide nucleic acid (PNA)monomers were successfully synthesized,and their photoisomerization was examined.The new PNA monomers showed reversible trans-cis isomerization with UVand visible light irradiation,which might be the foundation of photo-regulating the hybridization between PNA containing phenylazonaphthalene unit and DNA.Simulta- neously,the fluorescence of the new PNA monomers might make them especially useful as structural probes.