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Sequence-specific and Selective Recognition of Double-stranded RNAs over Single-stranded RNAs by Chemically Modified Peptide Nucleic Acids
Published on: September 21, 2017
Hybridization dependent cleavage of internally modified disulfide-peptide nucleic acids
Iris Boll1, Roland Krämer, Andriy Mokhir
1Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 270, D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany.
Abstract:
Selectivity of the cleavage of single stranded over hybridized forms of internally modified disulfide-peptide nucleic acids (PNA) has been optimized using a series of phosphines and thiols, which have different sizes and charges. For the most selective cleaver found (tris-(carboxyethyl)-phosphine), reactivity of single stranded PNA is 33 times higher than that of the PNA-DNA duplex. Selectivity of single stranded disulfide-PNA cleavage has been explained in terms of electrostatic interaction between the substrate and the cleaver.
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