title: Synthesis and properties of mirror-image DNA.
abstract: We have investigated the conformations of the hexadeoxyribonucleotide, L-d(CGCGCG) composed of L-deoxyribose, the mirror image molecule of natural D-deoxyribose. In this paper, we report the synthesis of four L-deoxynucleosides and the L-oligonucleotide-ethidium bromide interactions. The L-deoxyribose synthon 9 was synthesized from L-arabinose with an over all yield of 28.5% via the Barton-McCombie reaction. The L-deoxynucleosides were obtained by a glycosylation of appropriate nucleobase derivatives with the 1-chloro sugar 9. After derivatization to nucleoside phosphoramidites, L-deoxycytidine and L-deoxyguanosine were incorporated into a hexadeoxynucleotide, L-d(CGCGCG) by a solid-phase beta-cyanoethylphosphoramidite method. This L-hexanucleotide was resistant to digestion with nuclease P1. The conformations of L-d(CGCGCG) were an exact mirror image of that of the corresponding natural one as described previously, and the conformations of the L-d(CGCGCG)-ethidium bromide complex were also the mirror images of those of the D-d(CGCGCG)-ethidium bromide complex under both low and high salt conditions. These results suggest that ethidium bromide prefers not a right-handed helical sense, but the base-base stacking geometry of the B-form rather than that of the Z-form. Thus, L-DNA would be a useful tool for studying DNA-drug interactions.
authors.affiliation: Osaka University of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Japan.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Urata
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Ogura
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Shinohara
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ueda
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Akagi
mesh_terms: D002851:Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid; D003853:Deoxyribonucleosides / Q000138:chemical synthesis* / Q000737:chemistry; D009690:Nucleic Acid Conformation; D009838:Oligodeoxyribonucleotides / Q000138:chemical synthesis* / Q000737:chemistry
chemical_list: D003853:Deoxyribonucleosides; D009838:Oligodeoxyribonucleotides