Jastrzębska K, Mikołajczyk B, Guga P. LNA units present in [
RP-PS]-(DNA#LNA) chimeras enhance the thermal stability of parallel duplexes and triplexes formed with (2′-OMe)-RNA strands.
RSC Adv 2020;
10:22370-22376. [PMID:
35514591 PMCID:
PMC9054617 DOI:
10.1039/d0ra03934a]
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Abstract
The results of CD measurements indicate that 2-4 LNA units distributed along 12 nt P-stereodefined phosphorothioate [RP-PS]-(DNA#LNA) chimeras impose a C3′-endo conformation on the 2′-deoxyribonucleosides. Under neutral and slightly acidic conditions homopurine [Rp-PS]-(DNA#LNA) hybridizes with 9–12 nt Hoogsteen-paired (2′-OMe)-RNA strands to form parallel duplexes, which are thermally more stable than the reported earlier analogous complexes containing LNA-free [RP-PS]-DNA oligomers (ΔTm = 7 °C per LNA unit at pH 5.4). Upon addition of the corresponding Watson–Crick-paired (2′-OMe)-RNA strands, parallel triplexes are formed with further increased thermal stability.
3′-O-(2-Thio-1,3,2-oxathiaphospholane) derivatives of 5′-O-DMT-LNA-nucleosides were used to prepare P-stereodefined (RP-PS)-DNA#LNA chimeras, which form thermally stable parallel complexes with (2′-OMe)-RNA matrices.![]()
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