摘要:
The fluorescent nucleoside 2-pyrimidinone-1-beta-D-riboside (C-4H) has been incorporated into oligoribonucleotides using standard cyanoethyl phosphoramidite methods. This base provides a useful probe for the exocyclic amino function in cytidine. Cleavage of hammerhead ribozymes using GCGCCG-AAACACCGUGUCUCGAGC as the substrate and GGCUCGA[C-4H]UGAUGAGGCGC as a modified ribozyme resulted in a cleavage rate 1.75-fold slower than the unmodified analogue. The strand GGCUCG-ACUGA[C-4H]GAGGCGC represents an oligoribonucleotide in which a fluorescent base is introduced into a site non-essential for ribozyme function but is centrally located in the ribozyme's core of conserved nucleotides, thus providing a possible physical probe for ribozyme cleavage.