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Chemical Triphosphorylation of Oligonucleotides
Published on: June 2, 2022
Oligonucleotide charge reversal: 2'-O-lysylaminohexyl modified oligonucleotides
Johannes Winkler1, Christian R Noe
1Department of Medicinal Chemistry, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria. johannes.winkler@univie.ac.at
Abstract:
A novel cationic building nucleoside building block designed for antisense and siRNA oligonucleotides is presented. Protected L-lysine was coupled to 2'-O-aminohexyluridine and the resulting nucleoside was phosphitylated for automated oligonucleotide synthesis. An increasing number of these 2'-O-lysylaminohexyl nucleosides lowered the melting temperature of desoxy-thymidine homododecamers, but the decrease was lower than that for DNA/RNA hybrids. Incubation with an exonuclease showed the exceptionally high resistance against enzymatic degradation. CD spectrometry revealed a gradual transition towards an A-type oligonucleotide structure. Based on these data, the cationic building block is particularly suited for gapmer antisense as well as siRNA oligonucleotides.
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