What affects the effect of 2′-alkoxy modifications?: 1.: Stabilization effect of 2′-methoxy substitutions in uniformly modified DNA oligonucleotides
What affects the effect of 2′-alkoxy modifications?: 1.: Stabilization effect of 2′-methoxy substitutions in uniformly modified DNA oligonucleotides
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DOI:
10.1021/bi972995c
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发表时间:
1998-05-12
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2.9
通讯作者:
Freier, SM
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作者:
Lesnik, EA;Freier, SM
The thermostability of hybrid duplexes with uniformly 2'-methoxy modified DNA strands (D'R and RD'), their unmodified DNA:RNA counterparts (DR and RD), and corresponded RNA:RNA (RR) duplexes for six sequences with different GC and deoxypyrimidine (dPy) content was measured. The linear correlation between the total stabilization effect of 2'-methoxy modifications (Delta Delta G degrees(37)(D'R-DR)) and the relative stability of corresponding unmodified hybrids compared to the RR counterparts (Delta Delta G degrees(37)(RR-DR)) suggests that the initial conformational and the thermodynamic state of the "parent" unmodified hybrid governs the effect of 2'-methoxy land may be other 2'-alkoxy) modifications whose mechanism of action includes an S --> N conformational shift resulting in an RNA-like A-form duplex. We also found a correlation between the "hydrophobic" part of the total effect (Delta Delta G degrees(37) (D'R-RR)) and the dA fraction in the modified DNA strand, suggesting that the "hydrophobic" effect of the 2'-methoxy groups results mainly from intraresidue steric effects increasing rigidity of the modified sugar rings. The correlations observed enabled us to predict the stability of hybrids with 2'-methoxy modified DNA strands for any sequence except for sequences with (dU)(10) and (dA)(10) strings.