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A METHOD FOR THE SITE-SPECIFIC ENZYMATIC LABELLING OF NUCLEIC ACIDS IN VITRO BY INCORPORATION OF UNNATURAL NUCLEOTIDES
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Paragraph 00193, (2015/02/25)
Provided herein are analogs of unnatural nucleotides bearing predominantly hydrophobic nucleobase analogs that form unnatural base pairs during DNA polymerase- mediated replication of DNA or RNA polymerase-mediated transcription of RNA. In this manner, the unnatural nucleobases can be introduced in a site-specific way into oligonucleotides (single or double stranded DNA or RNA), where they can provide for site-specific cleavage, or can provide a reactive linker than can undergo functionalization with a cargo -bearing reagent by means of reaction with a primary amino group or by means of click chemistry with an alkyne group of the unnatural nucleobase linker.
Natural-like replication of an unnatural base pair for the expansion of the genetic alphabet and biotechnology applications
Li, Lingjun,Degardin, Melissa,Lavergne, Thomas,Malyshev, Denis A.,Dhami, Kirandeep,Ordoukhanian, Phillip,Romesberg, Floyd E.
supporting information, p. 826 - 829 (2014/02/14)
We synthesized a panel of unnatural base pairs whose pairing depends on hydrophobic and packing forces and identify dTPT3-dNaM, which is PCR amplified with a natural base pair-like efficiency and fidelity. In addition, the dTPT3 scaffold is uniquely tolerant of attaching a propargyl amine linker, resulting in the dTPT3PA-dNaM pair, which is amplified only slightly less well. The identification of dTPT3 represents significant progress toward developing an unnatural base pair for the in vivo expansion of an organism's genetic alphabet and for a variety of in vitro biotechnology applications where it is used to site-specifically label amplified DNA, and it also demonstrates for the first time that hydrophobic and packing forces are sufficient to mediate natural-like replication.
