Chemical synthesis of site-specifically 2'-azido-modified RNA and potential applications for bioconjugation and RNA interference.
Chemical synthesis of site-specifically 2'-azido-modified RNA and potential applications for bioconjugation and RNA interference.
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DOI:
10.1002/cbic.201000646
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发表时间:
2011-01-03
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影响因子:
3.2
通讯作者:
Micura, Ronald
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作者:
Aigner, Michaela;Hartl, Markus;Fauster, Katja;Steger, Jessica;Bister, Klaus;Micura, Ronald
One of the most important scientific discoveries in the recent past concerns RNA interference (RNAi), which is a post-transcriptional gene-silencing mechanism induced by small interfering RNA (siRNA) and micro-RNA (miRNA).[1] RNAi has opened up new avenues in the development of siRNA and miRNA as therapeutic agents for various diseases.[2] The reason for the large number of reports about chemically modified siRNA is their potential to enhance nuclease resistance, to prevent immune activation, to decrease off-target effects, and to improve pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic properties, all of which are important for the application of siRNA as therapeutic agents.[3] Another substantial challenge is siRNA delivery, because these reagents cannot easily traverse cell membranes because of their size and negative charge.[4] To date, the most promising therapeutic approach based on RNAi involves chemically modified siRNA that can resolve some of the issues mentioned above.Chemical siRNA modifications belong to four classes—backbone, ribose, nucleobase, and terminal modifications—with ribose modifications being the most common.[2b] Structurally simple alterations, such as 2о-OCH3 and 2о-F, lead to significantly enhanced performance of siRNA with diverse target genes, provided that they are positioned in a site-specific manner.[3] In particular, 2о-F modifications possess the extraordinary property of being very well accepted onto the guide (antisense) strand, while most other modifications are much better tolerated by the passenger (sense) strand.[5] The guide strand is incorporated into the crucial functional particle, the RNA-induced silencing complex (RISC); thus RNA recognition and discrimination from non-native counterparts is very stringent.[6] We postulated that siRNA with specific 2о-azido groups (2о-N3) should have the potential for enhanced performance, because this functional group is small, polar, and supports the C3о-endo ribose pucker [7] that is characteristic for an A-form
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