C2-substituted 8-aza-7-deaza-2′-deoxyadenosines as environmentally sensitive fluorescent nucleosides for discriminating apurinic/apyrimidinic sites in DNA duplex
Various environmentally sensitive fluorescent (ESF) nucleosides were synthesized. These are first ESF nucleosides possessing a C2-substituted azadeazaadenine skeleton. Compound 1c exhibited a remarkably high solvatochromicity (Δλ = 111 nm). 1c-containing DNA probes clearly discriminated an AP site in target DNA.