title: Caged nucleotides/nucleosides and their photochemical biology.
abstract: Nucleotides and nucleosides are not only key units of DNA/RNA that store genetic information, but are also the regulators of many biological events of our lives. By caging the key functional groups or key residues of nucleotides with photosensitive moieties, it will be possible to trigger biological events of target nucleotides with spatiotemporal resolution and amplitude upon light activation or photomodulate polymerase reactions with the caged nucleotide analogues for next-generation sequencing (NGS) and bioorthogonal labeling. This review highlights three different caging strategies for nucleotides and demonstrates the photochemical biology of these caged nucleotides.
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Natural and Biomimetic Drugs, the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Peking University, No. 38, Xueyuan Rd., Beijing 100191, China. xinjingt@bjmu.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Xinjing
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Tang
authors.forename: Jinhao
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Jingjing
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.forename: Yuan
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Junzhou
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: Lihe
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Zhang
mesh_terms: D009705:Nucleosides / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism; D009711:Nucleotides / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism; D055668:Photochemical Processes
chemical_list: D009705:Nucleosides; D009711:Nucleotides