Controlled Monofunctionalization of Molecular Spherical Nucleic Acids on a Buckminster Fullerene Core

Autor: Antti Äärelä, Ville Tähtinen, Olli Moisio, Niko Korsoff, Jani Rahkila, Päivi Poijärvi-Virta, Heidi Korhonen, Marjo Yliperttula, Anne Roivainen, Victor Nesati, Satu Mikkola, Laura Leimu, Tapani Viitala, Vijay Gulumkar, Elina Vuorimaa-Laukkanen, Pasi Virta
Přispěvatelé: Divisions of Faculty of Pharmacy, Division of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Technology, Division of Pharmaceutical Biosciences, Drug Research Program, Pharmaceutical biophysics group, Biopharmaceutics Group, Tampere University, Materials Science and Environmental Engineering
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Bioconjugate Chemistry
Popis: An azide-functionalized 12-armed Buckminster fullerene has been monosubstituted in organic media with a substoichiometric amount of cyclooctyne-modified oligonucleotides. Exposing the intermediate products then to the same reaction (i.e., strain-promoted alkyne-azide cycloaddition, SPAAC) with an excess of slightly different oligonucleotide constituents in an aqueous medium yields molecularly defined monofunctionalized spherical nucleic acids (SNAs). This procedure offers a controlled synthesis scheme in which one oligonucleotide arm can be functionalized with labels or other conjugate groups (1,4,7,10-tetraazacyclododecane-1,4,7,10-tetraacetic acid, DOTA, and Alexa-488 demonstrated), whereas the rest of the 11 arms can be left unmodified or modified by other conjugate groups in order to decorate the SNAs' outer sphere. Extra attention has been paid to the homogeneity and authenticity of the C60-azide scaffold used for the assembly of full-armed SNAs. publishedVersion
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