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Incorporation of Pseudo-complementary Bases 2,6-Diaminopurine and 2-Thiouracil into Serinol Nucleic Acid (SNA) to Promote SNA/RNA Hybridization
Kamiya, Yukiko,Sato, Fuminori,Murayama, Keiji,Kodama, Atsuji,Uchiyama, Susumu,Asanuma, Hiroyuki
supporting information, p. 1266 - 1271 (2020/02/25)
Serinol nucleic acid (SNA) is a promising candidate for nucleic acid-based molecular probes and drugs due to its high affinity for RNA. Our previous work revealed that incorporation of 2,6-diaminpurine (D), which can form three hydrogen bonds with uracil, into SNA increases the melting temperature of SNA-RNA duplexes. However, D incorporation into short self-complementary regions of SNA promoted self-dimerization and hindered hybridization with RNA. Here we synthesized a SNA monomer of 2-thiouracil (sU), which was expected to inhibit base pairing with D by steric hindrance between sulfur and the amino group. To prepare the SNA containing D and sU in high yield, we customized the protecting groups on D and sU monomers that can be readily deprotected under acidic conditions. Incorporation of D and sU into SNA facilitated stable duplex formation with target RNA by suppressing the self-hybridization of SNA and increasing the stability of the heteroduplex of SNA and its complementary RNA. Our results have important implications for the development of SNA-based probes and nucleic acid drugs.
Synthesis and oligomerization of Fmoc/Boc-protected PNA monomers of 2,6-diaminopurine, 2-aminopurine and thymine
St. Amant, Andre H.,Hudson, Robert H. E.
, p. 876 - 881 (2012/02/05)
A Boc-protecting group strategy for Fmoc-based PNA (peptide nucleic acid) oligomerization has been developed for thymine, 2,6-diaminopurine (DAP) and 2-aminopurine (2AP). The monomers may be used interchangeably with standard Fmoc PNA monomers. The DAP monomer was incorporated into a PNA and was found to selectively bind to T (ΔTm ≥ +6 °C) in a complementary DNA strand. The 2AP monomer showed excellent discrimination of T (ΔT m ≥ +12 °C) over the other nucleobases. 2AP also acted as a fluorescent probe of the PNA:DNA duplexes and displayed fluorescence quenching dependent on the opposite base.