Three new double-headed nucleotides with additional nucleobases connected to C-5 of pyrimidines; synthesis, duplex and triplex studies

Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry
Pawan KumarPoul Nielsen

Abstract

In the search for double-coding DNA-systems, three new pyrimidine nucleosides, each coded with an additional nucleobase anchored to the major groove face, are synthesized. Two of these building blocks carry a thymine at the 5-position of 2'-deoxyuridine through a methylene linker and a triazolomethylene linker, respectively. The third building block carries an adenine at the 6-position of pyrrolo-2'-deoxycytidine through a methylene linker. These double-headed nucleosides are introduced into oligonucleotides and their effects on the thermal stabilities of duplexes are studied. All studied double-headed nucleotide monomers reduce the thermal stability of the modified duplexes, which is partially compensated by using consecutive incorporations of the modified monomers or by flanking the new double-headed analogs with members of our former series containing propyne linkers. Also their potential in triplex-forming oligonucleotides is studied for two of the new double-headed nucleotides as well as the series of analogs with propyne linkers. The most stable triplexes are obtained with single incorporations of additional pyrimidine nucleobases connected via the propyne linker.

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Feb 2, 2006·Nucleic Acids Research·Peter YakovchukMaxim D Frank-Kamenetskii
Aug 29, 2009·Chembiochem : a European Journal of Chemical Biology·Masayuki Endo, Hiroshi Sugiyama
Jul 1, 2010·Nucleosides, Nucleotides & Nucleic Acids·Stephanie GourdainPascale Clivio
May 29, 2013·Chembiochem : a European Journal of Chemical Biology·Pawan KumarPoul Nielsen
Jun 9, 2015·Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry·Michael DalagerPawan K Sharma

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Jul 2, 2021·Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry·Vineet VermaAshok K Prasad

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