Chemically modified oligonucleotides with efficient RNase H response

Birte Vester, Anne Marie Boel, Sune Lobedanz, B Ravindra Babu, Michael Raunkjaer, Dorthe Lindegaard, Raunak, Patrick J Hrdlicka, Torben Højland, Pawan K Sharma, Surender Kumar, Poul Nielsen, Jesper Wengel

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Abstract

Ten different chemically modified nucleosides were incorporated into short DNA strands (chimeric oligonucleotides ON3-ON12 and ON15-ON24) and then tested for their capacity to mediate RNAse H cleavage of the complementary RNA strand. The modifications were placed at two central positions directly in the RNase H cleaving region. The RNA strand of duplexes with ON3, ON5 and ON12 were cleaved more efficiently than the RNA strand of the DNA:RNA control duplex. There seems to be no correlation between the thermal stability between the duplexes and RNase H cleavage.
Original languageEnglish
JournalBioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters
Volume18
Issue number7
Pages (from-to)2296-2300
Number of pages4
ISSN0960-894X
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1. Apr 2008

Keywords

  • Base Sequence
  • Binding Sites
  • DNA
  • Nucleic Acid Conformation
  • Oligonucleotides
  • RNA
  • Ribonuclease H
  • Substrate Specificity

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