Contributions of stacking, preorganization, and hydrogen bonding to the thermodynamic stability of duplexes between RNA and 2'-O-methyl RNA with locked nucleic acids.
Locked nucleic acids (LNA) considerably enhance the thermodynamic stability of DNA and RNA duplexes. We report the thermodynamic stabilities of LNA-2'-O-methyl RNA/RNA duplexes designed to provide insight into the contributions of stacking and hydrogen bonding interactions to the enhanced stability. The results show that hydrogen bonding of LNA nucleotides is similar to that of 2'-O-methyl RNA nucleotides, whereas the 3'-stacking interactions are on average approximately 0.7 kcal/mol more favorable at 37 degrees C than for 2'-O-methyl or RNA nucleotides. Moreover, NMR spectra suggest helical preorganization of the single-stranded tetramer, C(L)A(M)A(L)U(M), probably due to restriction of some torsion angles. Thus, enhanced stacking interactions and helical preorganization of single-stranded oligonucleotides contribute to the extraordinary stabilization of duplexes by LNA nucleotides.
Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, 60-714 Poznan, Noskowskiego 12/14, Poland. rkierzek@ibch.poznan.pl
Elzbieta
E
Kierzek
Anna
A
Pasternak
Karol
K
Pasternak
Zofia
Z
Gdaniec
Ilyas
I
Yildirim
Douglas H
DH
Turner
Ryszard
R
Kierzek
D004247:DNA / Q000737:chemistry; D006860:Hydrogen Bonding; D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy; D008956:Models, Chemical; D008968:Molecular Conformation; D009690:Nucleic Acid Conformation; D009711:Nucleotides / Q000737:chemistry; D009841:Oligonucleotides / Q000737:chemistry*; D012313:RNA / Q000737:chemistry*; D012997:Solvents / Q000737:chemistry; D013056:Spectrophotometry, Ultraviolet / Q000379:methods; D013816:Thermodynamics
D009711:Nucleotides; D009841:Oligonucleotides; D012997:Solvents; C477371:locked nucleic acid; D012313:RNA; D004247:DNA