Three structurally diverse types of the protected pyrrolidine nucleoside phosphonates were prepared as the monomers for the introduction of pyrrolidine nucleotide units into modified oligonucleotides on the solid phase. Two different chemistries were used for incorporation of modified and natural units: the phosphotriester method for the former, i.e., monomers containing N-phosphonoalkyl and N-phosphonoacyl moieties attached to the pyrrolidine ring nitrogen atom, and phosphoramidite chemistry for the latter. Since the synthesized pyrrolidine nucleoside phosphonic acids are close mimics of the 3′-deoxynucleoside 5′-phosphates, the incorporation of one modified unit into oligonucleotides gives rise to one 2′,5′ internucleotide linkage. A series of nonamers containing two or three modified units, as well as the fully modified adenine 15-mer, were synthesized in reverse order, i.e., from the 5′ to the 3′ end of the strand. The measurement of thermal characteristics of the complexes of modified nonamers with the complementary strand revealed a destabilizing effect of the introduced modification. The modified adenine homooligonucleotide, was found to form the most stable complex with oligothymidylate of all the tested modified oligonucleotides in terms of ΔTm per modification.
三种结构多样的保护吡咯烷基核苷酸膦酸酯被制备为单体,用于在固相上引入吡咯烷核苷酸单元到修饰寡核苷酸中。采用两种不同的化学方法来合成修饰和天然单元:前者采用磷酸三酯法,即含有连接到吡咯烷环氮原子的N-膦酸烷基和N-膦酸酰基的单体,后者采用磷酸酰胺化学方法。由于合成的吡咯烷基核苷酸膦酸是3'-去氧核苷酸5'-膦酸的近似物,因此将一个修饰单元引入到寡核苷酸中会产生一个2',5'间核苷酸连接。一系列包含两个或三个修饰单元的九聚体以及完全修饰的腺嘌呤15聚体是以相反的顺序合成的,即从链的5'端到3'端。测量修饰九聚体与互补链形成的复合物的热特性表明,引入修饰会导致复合物不稳定。在所有测试的修饰寡核苷酸中,修饰腺嘌呤同源寡核苷酸与寡胸苷酸形成的复合物具有最稳定的ΔTm值。