Abstract

We report on the efficient biochemical synthesis of a large DNA dumbbell starting from a pair of short DNA hairpins with long single-stranded tails of arbitrary sequence. The DNA dumbbell is obtained by enzymatic ligation yielding a 94-bp duplex stem closed at both termini by single-stranded loops of 5 nt. Following ligation, all unligated precursors and monoligated by-products were multiply biotinylated via nick-translation or primer-extension or both. Thus, they could readily be removed from the DNA dumbbell preparation by a mild biomagnetic separation procedure. The closed conformation of the purified DNA dumbbell was verified by its altered gel mobility as compared with unligated or monoligated samples and by an exonuclease assay. Considering the promising therapeutic potential of DNA dumbbells, the developed biosynthetic approach could be used for high-purity preparation of longer, covalently closed DNA decoys.

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