PNA hybridizes to complementary oligonucleotides obeying the Watson-Crick hydrogen-bonding rules
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PNA hybridizes to complementary oligonucleotides obeying the Watson-Crick hydrogen-bonding rules. / Buchardt, O; Freier, S M; Driver, D A; Kim, S K; Norden, B; Nielsen, Peter E.
I: Nature, Bind 365, Nr. 6446, 07.10.1993, s. 566-8.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - PNA hybridizes to complementary oligonucleotides obeying the Watson-Crick hydrogen-bonding rules
AU - Buchardt, O
AU - Freier, S M
AU - Driver, D A
AU - Kim, S K
AU - Norden, B
AU - Nielsen, Peter E.
PY - 1993/10/7
Y1 - 1993/10/7
N2 - DNA analogues are currently being intensely investigated owing to their potential as gene-targeted drugs. Furthermore, their properties and interaction with DNA and RNA could provide a better understanding of the structural features of natural DNA that determine its unique chemical, biological and genetic properties. We recently designed a DNA analogue, PNA, in which the backbone is structurally homomorphous with the deoxyribose backbone and consists of N-(2-aminoethyl)glycine units to which the nucleobases are attached. We showed that PNA oligomers containing solely thymine and cytosine can hybridize to complementary oligonucleotides, presumably by forming Watson-Crick-Hoogsteen (PNA)2-DNA triplexes, which are much more stable than the corresponding DNA-DNA duplexes, and bind to double-stranded DNA by strand displacement. We report here that PNA containing all four natural nucleobases hybridizes to complementary oligonucleotides obeying the Watson-Crick base-pairing rules, and thus is a true DNA mimic in terms of base-pair recognition.
AB - DNA analogues are currently being intensely investigated owing to their potential as gene-targeted drugs. Furthermore, their properties and interaction with DNA and RNA could provide a better understanding of the structural features of natural DNA that determine its unique chemical, biological and genetic properties. We recently designed a DNA analogue, PNA, in which the backbone is structurally homomorphous with the deoxyribose backbone and consists of N-(2-aminoethyl)glycine units to which the nucleobases are attached. We showed that PNA oligomers containing solely thymine and cytosine can hybridize to complementary oligonucleotides, presumably by forming Watson-Crick-Hoogsteen (PNA)2-DNA triplexes, which are much more stable than the corresponding DNA-DNA duplexes, and bind to double-stranded DNA by strand displacement. We report here that PNA containing all four natural nucleobases hybridizes to complementary oligonucleotides obeying the Watson-Crick base-pairing rules, and thus is a true DNA mimic in terms of base-pair recognition.
KW - Base Sequence
KW - Cytosine/chemistry
KW - DNA/chemistry
KW - Glycine/analogs & derivatives
KW - Hydrogen Bonding
KW - Molecular Sequence Data
KW - Nucleic Acid Hybridization
KW - Oligodeoxyribonucleotides/chemistry
KW - RNA/chemistry
KW - Thermodynamics
KW - Thymine/chemistry
U2 - 10.1038/365566a0
DO - 10.1038/365566a0
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 7692304
VL - 365
SP - 566
EP - 568
JO - Nature
JF - Nature
SN - 0028-0836
IS - 6446
ER -
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