An Unconventional Acid-Labile Nucleobase Protection Concept for Guanosine Phosphoramidites in RNA Solid-Phase
1Institute of Organic Chemistry, Center for Molecular Biosciences Innsbruck (CMBI), University of Innsbruck, Innrain 80-82, 6020, Innsbruck, Austria.
Abstract:
We present an innovative O6 -tert-butyl/N2 -tert-butyloxycarbonyl protection concept for guanosine (G) phosphoramidites. This concept is advantageous for 2'-modified G building blocks because of very efficient synthetic access when compared with existing routes that usually employ O6 -(4-nitrophenyl)ethyl/N2 -acyl protection or that start from 2-aminoadenosine involving enzymatic transformation into guanosine later on in the synthetic path. The new phosphoramidites are fully compatible with 2'-O-tBDMS or TOM phosphoramidites in standard RNA solid-phase synthesis and deprotection, and provide excellent quality of tailored RNAs for the growing range of applications in RNA biophysics, biochemistry, and biology.
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