Synthesis and properties of adenosine oligonucleotide analogues containing methylene groups in place of phosphodiester 5'-oxygens.
Synthesis and properties of adenosine oligonucleotide analogues containing methylene groups in place of phosphodiester 5'-oxygens.
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含有亚甲基取代磷酸二酯 5-氧的腺苷寡核苷酸类似物的合成和性质。
DOI:
10.1021/bi00086a017
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发表时间:
1993
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影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
Gilham,PT
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作者:
Breaker,RR;Gough,GR;Gilham,PT
Revised Manuscript Received June 3, 1993® abstract: The ADP analogue in which the 5'-oxygen has been replaced by a methylene group can be prepared by condensing S'-deoxy-S'-phosphonomethyladenosine with inorganic phosphate. This analogue readily polymerizes onto the primer AA in the presence of the enzyme polynucleotide phosphorylase and either Mg2+ or Mn2+. The initial products are of the form AA (-cA)„-cA (where and “-c” stand for the normal phosphodiester linkage and the linkage in which the 5'-oxygen is replaced with the methylene group, respectively). Treatment of these with alkali yields adenosine 2'(3')-phosphate and the series (A (-cA)„-cA containing only phosphonomethylene linkages. The decamer A (-cA) g-cA interacts with two molecules of U (-U) 8-U to form a triple-standard structure that has a stability similar to that exhibited by the analogous complex formed from A (-A) gA and U (-U) sU. This property, along with the resistance of these oligomer analogues toward nucleases that cleave phosphodiester linkages between the phosphorus and the S'-oxygen, should provide a strong rationale for application of phosphonomethylene linkages in schemes for therapeutic drug design that use the antisense strategy.In the “antisense” strategy of drug development, synthetic oligonucleotide structures are designed to serve as inhibitors of gene expression or other nucleic acid functions by exploiting the capacity of the oligomer’s nucleotide sequence to form a stable complex with its Watson-Crick complement within the cell. A large number of oligonucleotide analogue structures have been synthesized and studied for this purpose [reviewed by Uhlmann and Peyman (1990)]. The structural modifi-cations have usually involved changes in the internucleotide linkage which permit the oligomer to conserve its capacity to form base-paired duplexes corresponding to the natural shape while at the same time conferring some resistance to nucleases that would normally destroy the molecule in vivo. The present study [for a preliminary report, see Breaker et al.(1990)] concerns the preparation of adenosine oligomerscontaining methylene groups in place of their 5'-oxygens, the effects of such substitution on their interaction with uridine oligomers, and their susceptibility to nuclease cleavage.