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7-aminobutynyl-8-aza-7-deazahypoxanthine as a quasi-universal nucleobase
Alexei V Vorobiev1, Noah K Scarr, Yevgeniy Belousov
1Elitech Group, Epoch Biosciences, a Division of Wescor Inc., Bothell, Washington 98021, USA.
Abstract:
Several 7-(hydroxy, amino, methylureido, and guanidino)alkynyl-substituted 8-aza-7-deaza- hypoxanthine analogues were investigated as potential universal nucleobases. 7-Aminobutynyl-8-aza-7-deazahypoxanthine was found to be the most promising quasi-universal nucleobase with improved hybridization and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) enhancing properties as compared to commonly used hypoxanthine (the nucleobase of inosine). It demonstrated improved ambiguity for pairing with A, T, and C bases and its base pairing properties can be summarized as follows: X:C∼X:A∼X:T > X:G. The improvement in PCR performance directly correlated with primer's Tm. Primers containing multiple 7-aminobutynyl-8-aza-7-deazahypoxanthines were successfully used without noticeable inhibition of Taq polymerase activity provided the modifications are positioned more than two bases away from the 3' end.
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