Fine Tuning of Electrostatics around the Internucleotidic Phosphate through Incorporation of Modified 2′,4′-Carbocyclic-LNAs and -ENAs Leads to Significant Modulation of Antisense Properties
choice of the cleavage sites of RNase H mediated RNA cleavage in the AON/RNA hybrid duplex, but the cleavage rate depended on the modification site in the AON sequence. If the original preferred cleavage site by RNase H was included in the 4-5nt stretch from the 3′-end of the modification site in the AON, decreased cleavage rate was observed. Upon screening of 52 modified AONs, containing 13 differently