Hickman, D.T. and Tan, T.H.S. and Morral, J. and King, Paul M. and Cooper, M.A. and Micklefield, J. (2003) Design, synthesis, conformational analysis and nucleic acid hybridisation properties of thymidyl pyrrolidine-amide oligonucleotide mimics (POM). Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry 1 (19), pp. 3277-3292. ISSN 1477-0520.
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Abstract
Pyrrolidine-amide oligonucleotide mimics (POM) 1 were designed to be stereochemically and conformationally similar to natural nucleic acids, but with an oppositely charged, cationic backbone. Molecular modelling reveals that the lowest energy conformation of a thymidyl-POM monomer is similar to the conformation adopted by ribonucleosides. An e cient solution phase synthesis of the thymidyl POM oligomers has been developed, using both N-alkylation and acylation coupling strategies. 1H NMR spectroscopy con rmed that the highly water soluble thymidyl-dimer, T2-POM, preferentially adopts both a con guration about the pyrrolidine N-atom and an overall conformation in D2O that are very similar to a typical C3 -endo nucleotide in RNA. In addition the nucleic acid hybridisation properties of a thymidyl-pentamer, T5-POM, with an N-terminal phthalimide group were evaluated using both UV spectroscopy and surface plasmon resonance (SPR). It was found that T5-POM exhibits very high a nity for complementary ssDNA and RNA, similar to that of a T5-PNA oligomer. SPR experiments also showed that T5-POM binds with high sequence delity to ssDNA under near physiological conditions. In addition, it was found possible to attenuate the binding a nity of T5-POM to ssDNA and RNA by varying both the ionic strength and pH. However, the most striking feature exhibited by T5-POM is an unprecedented kinetic binding selectivity for ssRNA over DNA.
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| Item Type: | Article |
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| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Science > School of Natural Sciences |
| Depositing User: | Paul King |
| Date Deposited: | 28 Feb 2005 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Aug 2023 16:45 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/83 |
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