| Autor: |
Moreno PM; Department of Laboratory Medicine, Clinical Research Center, Karolinska Institutet, 141 86 Huddinge, Stockholm, Sweden., Geny S, Pabon YV, Bergquist H, Zaghloul EM, Rocha CS, Oprea II, Bestas B, Andaloussi SE, Jørgensen PT, Pedersen EB, Lundin KE, Zain R, Wengel J, Smith CI |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Zdroj: |
Nucleic acids research [Nucleic Acids Res] 2013 Mar 01; Vol. 41 (5), pp. 3257-73. Date of Electronic Publication: 2013 Jan 23. |
| DOI: |
10.1093/nar/gkt007 |
| Abstrakt: |
In spite of the many developments in synthetic oligonucleotide (ON) chemistry and design, invasion into double-stranded DNA (DSI) under physiological salt and pH conditions remains a challenge. In this work, we provide a new ON tool based on locked nucleic acids (LNAs), designed for strand invasion into duplex DNA (DSI). We thus report on the development of a clamp type of LNA ON-bisLNA-with capacity to bind and invade into supercoiled double-stranded DNA. The bisLNA links a triplex-forming, Hoogsteen-binding, targeting arm with a strand-invading Watson-Crick binding arm. Optimization was carried out by varying the number and location of LNA nucleotides and the length of the triplex-forming versus strand-invading arms. Single-strand regions in target duplex DNA were mapped using chemical probing. By combining design and increase in LNA content, it was possible to achieve a 100-fold increase in potency with 30% DSI at 450 nM using a bisLNA to plasmid ratio of only 21:1. Although this first conceptual report does not address the utility of bisLNA for the targeting of DNA in a chromosomal context, it shows bisLNA as a promising candidate for interfering also with cellular genes. |
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MEDLINE |
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