Synthesis and RNA-selective hybridization of α-l-ribo- and β-d-lyxo-configured oligonucleotides
作者:Gilles Gaubert、B. Ravindra Babu、Stefan Vogel、Torsten Bryld、Birte Vester、Jesper Wengel
DOI:10.1016/j.tet.2005.12.007
日期:2006.3
Three alpha-L-ribofuranosyl analogues of RNA nucleotides (alpha-L-RNA analogues) have been synthesized and incorporated into oligonucleotides using the phosphoramide approach on an automated DNA synthesizer. The 4'-C-hydroxymethyl-alpha-L-ribofuranosyl thymine monomer was furthermore synthesized. Relative to the unmodified duplexes, incorporation of a single a-L-RNA monomer into a DNA strand leads to reduced thermal stability of duplexes with DNA complements but unchanged thermal stability of duplexes with RNA complements, whereas incorporation of more than one alpha-L-RNA monomer lead to moderately decreased thermal stability also of duplexes with RNA complements. Efficient hybridization with an RNA complement and no melting transition with a DNA complement were observed with stereoregular chimeric oligonucleotides composed of a mixture of alpha-L-RNA and affinity enhancing alpha-L-LNA monomers (alpha-L-ribo-configured locked nucleic acid). Furthermore, duplexes formed between oligodeoxynucleotides containing an alpha-L-RNA monomer and complementary RNA were good substrates for Escherichia coli RNase H. RNA-selective hybridization was also achieved by the incorporation of 1-(4-C-hydroxymethyl-beta-D-lyxofuranosyl)thymine monomers into a DNA strand, whereas stable duplexes were formed with both complementary DNA and RNA when these monomers were incorporated into an RNA strand. (c) 2005 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.