Burnett Ryan, Melander Christian, Puckett James W, Son Leslie S, Wells Robert D, Dervan Peter B, Gottesfeld Joel M
Department of Molecular Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, 10550 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 Aug 1;103(31):11497-502. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0604939103. Epub 2006 Jul 20.
The DNA abnormality found in 98% of Friedreich's ataxia (FRDA) patients is the unstable hyperexpansion of a GAA.TTC triplet repeat in the first intron of the frataxin gene. Expanded GAA.TTC repeats result in decreased transcription and reduced levels of frataxin protein in affected individuals. Beta-alanine-linked pyrrole-imidazole polyamides bind GAA.TTC tracts with high affinity and disrupt the intramolecular DNA.DNA-associated region of the sticky-DNA conformation formed by long GAA.TTC repeats. Fluorescent polyamide-Bodipy conjugates localize in the nucleus of a lymphoid cell line derived from a FRDA patient. The synthetic ligands increase transcription of the frataxin gene in cell culture, resulting in increased levels of frataxin protein. DNA microarray analyses indicate that a limited number of genes are significantly affected in FRDA cells. Polyamides may increase transcription by altering the DNA conformation of genes harboring long GAA.TTC repeats or by chromatin opening.
在98%的弗里德赖希共济失调(FRDA)患者中发现的DNA异常是,在铁调素基因的第一个内含子中,GAA.TTC三联体重复序列出现不稳定的过度扩增。GAA.TTC重复序列的扩增导致受影响个体中转录减少和铁调素蛋白水平降低。β-丙氨酸连接的吡咯-咪唑聚酰胺以高亲和力结合GAA.TTC片段,并破坏由长GAA.TTC重复序列形成的粘性DNA构象的分子内DNA.DNA相关区域。荧光聚酰胺-硼二吡咯共轭物定位于源自FRDA患者的淋巴细胞系的细胞核中。合成配体在细胞培养中增加铁调素基因的转录,导致铁调素蛋白水平升高。DNA微阵列分析表明,FRDA细胞中有数量有限但显著受影响的基因。聚酰胺可能通过改变含有长GAA.TTC重复序列的基因的DNA构象或通过染色质开放来增加转录。