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"Fleximers". Design and synthesis of a new class of novel shape-modified nucleosides(1).
Seley, Katherine L,Zhang, Liang,Hagos, Asmerom,Quirk, Stephen
, p. 3365 - 3373 (2007/10/03)
A new class of shape-modified nucleosides is introduced. These novel "fleximers" feature the purine ring systems of adenosine, inosine, and guanosine split into their individual imidazole and pyrimidine components (as in 1-3). This structural modification serves to introduce flexibility into the nucleoside while still retaining the elements essential for recognition. As a consequence, these novel fleximers should find use as bioprobes for investigating enzyme-coenzyme binding sites as well as nucleic acid and protein interactions. Their design and synthesis are described.