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Das G, Harikrishna S, Gore KR. Investigating the Effect of Chemical Modifications on the Ribose Sugar Conformation, Watson-Crick Base Pairing, and Intrastrand Stacking Interactions: A Theoretical Approach. J Phys Chem B 2024; 128:8313-8331. [PMID: 39172066 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.4c02557] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 08/23/2024]
Abstract
Over the last few decades, chemically modified sugars have been incorporated into nucleic acid-based therapeutics to improve their pharmacological potential. Chemical modification can influence the sugar conformation, Watson-Crick hydrogen (W-C) bonding, and nucleobase stacking interactions, which play major roles in the structural integrity and dynamic properties of nucleic acid duplexes. In this study, we categorized 33 uridine (U*) and cytidine (C*) sugar modifications and calculated their sugar conformational parameters. We also calculated the Watson-Crick hydrogen bond energies of the modified RNA-type base pairs (U*:A and C*:G) using DFT and sSAPT0 methods. The W-C base pairing energy calculations suggested that the South-type modified sugar strengthens the C*:G base pair and weakens the U*:A base pair compared to the unmodified one. In contrast, the North-type sugar modifications form weaker C*:G base pair and marginally stronger U*:A base pair compared to the South-type modified sugars. Moreover, intrastrand base stacking energies were calculated for 15 modifications incorporated at the fourth position in 7-mer non-self-complementary RNA duplexes [(GCAU*GAC)2 and (GCAC*GAC)2], utilizing molecular dynamics simulation and quantum mechanical (DFT and sSAPT0) methods. The sugar modifications were found to have minimal effect on the intrastrand base-stacking interactions. However, the glycol nucleic acid modification disturbs the intrastrand base-stacking significantly, corroborating the experimental data.
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- Gourav Das
- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur, West Bengal 721302, India
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- Department of Chemistry and Center for Structural Biology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37240, United States
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- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur, West Bengal 721302, India
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Yamashita T, Nakamoto K, Hitaoka S, Mizoguchi J, Watanabe T, Hasebe T. Influence of oligonucleotides structures for separation of diastereomers by capillary electrophoresis method using polyvinylpyrrolidone 1,300,000. J Chromatogr A 2024; 1725:464945. [PMID: 38688053 DOI: 10.1016/j.chroma.2024.464945] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/13/2024] [Revised: 04/22/2024] [Accepted: 04/24/2024] [Indexed: 05/02/2024]
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In the field of oligonucleotides drug discovery, phosphorothioate (PS) modification has been recognized as an effective tool to overcome the nuclease digestion, and generates 2n of possible diastereomers, where n equals the number of PS linkages. However, it is also well known that differences in drug efficacy and toxicity are caused by differences in stereochemistry of oligonucleotides. Therefore, the development of a high-resolution analytical method that enables stereo discrimination of oligonucleotides is desired. Under this circumstance, capillary electrophoresis (CE) using polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) is considered as one of the useful tools for the separation analysis of diastereomers. In this study, we evaluated the several oligonucleotides with the structural diversities in order to understand the separation mechanism of the diastereomers by CE. Especially, five kinds of 2'-moieties were deeply examined by CE with PVP 1,300,000 polymer solution. We found that different trend of the peak shapes and the peak resolution were observed among these oligonucleotides. For example, the better peak resolution was observed in 6 mer PS3-DNA compared to the rigid structure of 6 mer PS3-LNA. As for this reason, the computational simulation revealed that difference of accessible surface area caused by the steric structure of thiophosphate in each oligonucleotide is one of the key attributes to explain the separation of the diastereomers. In addition, we achieved the separation of sixteen peak tops of the diastereomers in 6 mer PS4-DNA, and the complete separation of fifteen diastereomers in 6 mer PS4-RNA. These knowledge for the separation of the diastereomers by CE will be expected to the quality control of the oligonucleotide drugs.
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- Taro Yamashita
- Analytical Research, Pharmaceutical Science & Technology Unit, Pharmaceutical Profiling & Development Function, Deep Human Biology Learning, Eisai Co., Ltd., 5-1-3 Tokodai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 300-2635, Japan.
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- Analytical Research, Pharmaceutical Science & Technology Unit, Pharmaceutical Profiling & Development Function, Deep Human Biology Learning, Eisai Co., Ltd., 5-1-3 Tokodai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 300-2635, Japan
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- Emerging Modality Generation Department, Discovery Evidence Generation Function, Deep Human Biology Learning, Eisai Co., Ltd., 5-1-3 Tokodai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 300-2635, Japan
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- Analytical Research, Pharmaceutical Science & Technology Unit, Pharmaceutical Profiling & Development Function, Deep Human Biology Learning, Eisai Co., Ltd., 5-1-3 Tokodai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 300-2635, Japan
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- Analytical Research, Pharmaceutical Science & Technology Unit, Pharmaceutical Profiling & Development Function, Deep Human Biology Learning, Eisai Co., Ltd., 5-1-3 Tokodai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 300-2635, Japan
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- Analytical Research, Pharmaceutical Science & Technology Unit, Pharmaceutical Profiling & Development Function, Deep Human Biology Learning, Eisai Co., Ltd., 5-1-3 Tokodai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 300-2635, Japan
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Gangopadhyay S, Das G, Gupta S, Ghosh A, Bagale SS, Roy PK, Mandal M, Harikrishna S, Sinha S, Gore KR. 4'- C-Acetamidomethyl-2'- O-methoxyethyl Nucleic Acid Modifications Improve Thermal Stability, Nuclease Resistance, Potency, and hAgo2 Binding of Small Interfering RNAs. J Org Chem 2024; 89:3747-3768. [PMID: 38394362 DOI: 10.1021/acs.joc.3c02506] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/25/2024]
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In this study, we designed the 4'-C-acetamidomethyl-2'-O-methoxyethyl (4'-C-ACM-2'-O-MOE) uridine and thymidine modifications, aiming to test them into small interfering RNAs. Thermal melting studies revealed that incorporating a single 4'-C-ACM-2'-O-MOE modification in the DNA duplex reduced thermal stability. In contrast, an increase in thermal stability was observed when the modification was introduced in DNA:RNA hybrid and in siRNAs. Thermal destabilization in DNA duplex was attributed to unfavorable entropy, which was mainly compensated by the enthalpy factor to some extent. A single 4'-C-ACM-2'-O-MOE thymidine modification at the penultimate position of the 3'-end of dT20 oligonucleotides in the presence of 3'-specific exonucleases, snake venom phosphodiesterase (SVPD), demonstrated significant stability as compared to monomer modifications including 2'-O-Me, 2'-O-MOE, and 2'-F. In gene silencing studies, we found that the 4'-C-ACM-2'-O-MOE uridine or thymidine modifications at the 3'-overhang in the passenger strand in combination with two 2'-F modifications exhibited superior RNAi activity. The results suggest that the dual modification is well tolerated at the 3'-end of the passenger strand, which reflects better siRNA stability and silencing activity. Interestingly, 4'-C-ACM-2'-O-MOE-modified siRNAs showed considerable gene silencing even after 96 h posttransfection; it showed that our modification could induce prolonged gene silencing due to improved metabolic stability. Molecular modeling studies revealed that the introduction of the 4'-C-ACM-2'-O-MOE modification at the 3'-end of the siRNA guide strand helps to anchor the strand within the PAZ domain of the hAgo2 protein. The overall results indicate that the 4'-C-ACM-2'-O-MOE uridine and thymidine modifications are promising modifications to improve the stability, potency, and hAgo2 binding of siRNAs.
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- Sumit Gangopadhyay
- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur, West Bengal 721302, India
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- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur, West Bengal 721302, India
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- School of Applied and Interdisciplinary Sciences, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata, Jadavpur 700032, India
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- School of Applied and Interdisciplinary Sciences, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata, Jadavpur 700032, India
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- School of Medical Science and Technology, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur, West Bengal 721302, India
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- School of Medical Science and Technology, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur, West Bengal 721302, India
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- Center for Structural Biology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37232, United States
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- School of Applied and Interdisciplinary Sciences, Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, Kolkata, Jadavpur 700032, India
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- Department of Chemistry, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur, West Bengal 721302, India
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Nascimento SMRD, Ferry A, Gallier F, Lubin-Germain N, Uziel J, Gonzales S, Miranda LSDME. Developments in the chemistry and biology of 1,2,3-triazolyl-C-nucleosides. Arch Pharm (Weinheim) 2024; 357:e2300580. [PMID: 38150650 DOI: 10.1002/ardp.202300580] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/09/2023] [Revised: 11/28/2023] [Accepted: 11/30/2023] [Indexed: 12/29/2023]
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In the last 50 years, nucleoside analogs have been introduced to drug therapy as antivirals for different types of cancer due to their interference in cellular proliferation. Among the first line of nucleoside treatment drugs, ribavirin (RBV) is a synthetic N-nucleoside with a 1,2,4-triazole moiety that acts as a broad-spectrum antiviral. It is on the World Health Organization (WHO) list of essential medicines. However, this important drug therapy causes several side effects due to its nonspecific mechanism of action. There is thus a need for a continuous study of its scaffold. A particular approach consists of connecting d-ribose to the nitrogen-containing base with a C-C bond. It provides more stability against enzymatic action and a better pharmacologic profile. The coronavirus disease (COVID) pandemic has increased the need for more solutions for the treatment of viral infections. Among these solutions, remdesivir, the first C-nucleoside, has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for clinical use against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). It drew attention to the study of the C-nucleoside scaffold. Different C-nucleoside patterns have been synthesized over the years. They show many important activities against viruses and cancer cell lines. 1,2,3-Triazolyl-C-nucleoside derivatives are a prolific and efficient subclass of RBV analogs close to the already-known RBV with a C-C bond modification. These compounds are often prepared by alkynylation of the d-ribose ring followed by azide-alkyne cycloaddition. They are reported to be active against the Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus and several tumoral cell lines, showing promising biological potential. In this review, we explore such approaches to 1,2,3-triazolyl-C-nucleosides and their evolution over the years.
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- CY Cergy Paris Université, CNRS, BioCIS, Cergy-Pontoise, France
- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, BioCIS, Châtenay-Malabry, France
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- CY Cergy Paris Université, CNRS, BioCIS, Cergy-Pontoise, France
- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, BioCIS, Châtenay-Malabry, France
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- CY Cergy Paris Université, CNRS, BioCIS, Cergy-Pontoise, France
- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, BioCIS, Châtenay-Malabry, France
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- CY Cergy Paris Université, CNRS, BioCIS, Cergy-Pontoise, France
- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, BioCIS, Châtenay-Malabry, France
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- CY Cergy Paris Université, CNRS, BioCIS, Cergy-Pontoise, France
- Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, BioCIS, Châtenay-Malabry, France
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Ji C, Wei J, Zhang L, Hou X, Tan J, Yuan Q, Tan W. Aptamer-Protein Interactions: From Regulation to Biomolecular Detection. Chem Rev 2023; 123:12471-12506. [PMID: 37931070 DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.3c00377] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2023]
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Serving as the basis of cell life, interactions between nucleic acids and proteins play essential roles in fundamental cellular processes. Aptamers are unique single-stranded oligonucleotides generated by in vitro evolution methods, possessing the ability to interact with proteins specifically. Altering the structure of aptamers will largely modulate their interactions with proteins and further affect related cellular behaviors. Recently, with the in-depth research of aptamer-protein interactions, the analytical assays based on their interactions have been widely developed and become a powerful tool for biomolecular detection. There are some insightful reviews on aptamers applied in protein detection, while few systematic discussions are from the perspective of regulating aptamer-protein interactions. Herein, we comprehensively introduce the methods for regulating aptamer-protein interactions and elaborate on the detection techniques for analyzing aptamer-protein interactions. Additionally, this review provides a broad summary of analytical assays based on the regulation of aptamer-protein interactions for detecting biomolecules. Finally, we present our perspectives regarding the opportunities and challenges of analytical assays for biological analysis, aiming to provide guidance for disease mechanism research and drug discovery.
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- Cailing Ji
- Molecular Science and Biomedicine Laboratory (MBL), State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Biosensing and Chemometrics, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China
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- Molecular Science and Biomedicine Laboratory (MBL), State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Biosensing and Chemometrics, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China
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- Molecular Science and Biomedicine Laboratory (MBL), State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Biosensing and Chemometrics, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China
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- Molecular Science and Biomedicine Laboratory (MBL), State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Biosensing and Chemometrics, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China
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- Molecular Science and Biomedicine Laboratory (MBL), State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Biosensing and Chemometrics, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China
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- Molecular Science and Biomedicine Laboratory (MBL), State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Biosensing and Chemometrics, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China
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- Molecular Science and Biomedicine Laboratory (MBL), State Key Laboratory of Chemo/Biosensing and Chemometrics, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China
- The Cancer Hospital of the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (Zhejiang Cancer Hospital), Hangzhou Institute of Medicine (HIM), Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310022, China
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