201732-38-9Relevant academic research and scientific papers
Synthesis and triplex forming properties of an acyclic N7-glycosylated guanine nucleoside
St. Clair, Aimee,Xiang, Guobing,McLaughlin, Larry W.
, p. 925 - 937 (2007/10/03)
A chiral acyclic nucleoside, one in which the ribose carbohydrate has been replaced with a glycerol-based linker, is prepared by glycosylating guanine at the N7-nitrogen. The stereochemically pure derivative is converted to a DMT-protected phosphoramidite for incorporation into DNA sequences. Sequence containing the acyclic N7-dG nucleoside are capable of forming DNA triplexes in which it is likely that the N1-H and N2-amino groups of the N7-dG are involved in recognition of the guanine base in G-C base pairs.
A cytosine analogue containing a conformationally flexible acyclic linker for triplex formation at sites with contiguous G-C base pairs
Xiang, Guobing,McLaughlin, Larry W.
, p. 375 - 392 (2007/10/03)
Two nucleoside derivatives of the pyrimidine bases T and m(5ox)C have been prepared with flexible acyclic carbohydrate linkers. A new procedure, beginning with (R)-(-)-2,2-dimethyl-1,3-dioxolane-4-methanol permits the preparation of the stereochemically pure acyclic derivatives of both protected nucleoside analogues without contamination by a problematic rearrangement product. By simply increasing the flexibility of the carbohydrate portion of the am(5ox)C nucleoside derivative. 15-mer triplexes containing five contiguous G-C base pairs exhibit a 7-8 °C increase in T(m) value.
