title: Hoogsteen-paired homopurine [RP-PS]-DNA and homopyrimidine RNA strands form a thermally stable parallel duplex.
abstract: Homopurine deoxyribonucleoside phosphorothioates possessing all internucleotide linkages of R(P) configuration form a duplex with an RNA or 2'-OMe-RNA strand with Hoogsteen complementarity. The duplexes formed with RNA templates are thermally stable at pH 5.3, while those formed with a 2'-OMe-RNA are stable at neutrality. Melting temperature and fluorescence quenching experiments indicate that the strands are parallel. Remarkably, these duplexes are thermally more stable than parallel Hoogsteen duplexes and antiparallel Watson-Crick duplexes formed by unmodified homopurine DNA molecules of the same sequence with corresponding RNA templates.
authors: Polish Academy of Sciences, Centre of Molecular and Macromolecular Studies, Department of Bioorganic Chemistry, Łódź, Poland. pguga@bio.cbmm.lodz.pl
authors: Piotr
authors: P
authors: Guga
authors: Magdalena
authors: M
authors: Janicka
authors: Anna
authors: A
authors: Maciaszek
authors: Beata
authors: B
authors: Rebowska
authors: Genowefa
authors: G
authors: Nowak
mesh_terms: D020029:Base Pairing; D001483:Base Sequence; D001703:Biophysics / Q000379:methods; D002942:Circular Dichroism; D003596:Cytosine / Q000737:chemistry; D004247:DNA / Q000737:chemistry*; D006860:Hydrogen Bonding; D006863:Hydrogen-Ion Concentration; D008968:Molecular Conformation; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009690:Nucleic Acid Conformation; D011687:Purines / Q000737:chemistry*; D011743:Pyrimidines / Q000737:chemistry; D012313:RNA / Q000737:chemistry*; D013050:Spectrometry, Fluorescence / Q000379:methods; D013696:Temperature
chemical_list: D011687:Purines; D011743:Pyrimidines; D012313:RNA; D003596:Cytosine; D004247:DNA; C030986:pyrimidine
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