Site-specific unnatural base excision via visible light

Chem Commun (Camb). 2022 Oct 18;58(83):11717-11720. doi: 10.1039/d2cc03664a.

Abstract

Base excision (BE) is an important yet hard-to-control biological event. Unnatural base pairs are powerful tools to revolutionize biological studies in various areas. In this paper, we report a visible-light-induced method to construct site-specific unnatural BE and show the influence of its regulation on transcription and translation levels.

MeSH terms

  • Base Pairing* / radiation effects
  • Light*
  • Mutagenesis, Site-Directed* / methods
  • Nucleotides* / chemistry
  • Nucleotides* / radiation effects
  • Sequence Deletion* / radiation effects

Substances

  • Nucleotides