STABILIZATION OF DOUBLE-STANDARD OLIGONUCLEOTIDES USING BACKBONE-LINKED DISULFIDE BRIDGES

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作者
GAO, H
YANG, MH
COOK, AF
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[1] PharmaGenics Inc., Allendale, NJ 07401
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10.1093/nar/23.2.285
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Q5 [生物化学]; Q7 [分子生物学];
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071010 ; 081704 ;
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A convenient, practical route to the synthesis of disulfide-bridged oligonucleotides has been developed. Aliphatic linkers with terminal thiol groups have been attached to the phosphodiester backbones of partially or fully complementary oligonucleotide sequences and oxidized to yield covalently closed oligonucleotides with disulfide bridges. This procedure has been used to prepare a duplex with disulfide bridges at both ends and stem-loop sequences with single disulfide bridges. Oxidation of a serf-complementary duplex possessing terminal thiol groups produced both hairpin and duplex structures with disulfide bridges, the relative proportions of each being dependent upon the reaction conditions. These bridged hairpin and duplex structures were shown to be interconvertible by reduction and re-oxidation. The melting profiles of disulfide-bridged oligonucleotides were compared with the same sequences without bridges and with sequences possessing triethylene glycol bridges, and in all cases the introduction of disulfide bridges resulted in a considerable increase in thermal stability. EcoRI endonuclease was capable of cleaving a disulfide-bridged duplex possessing a recognition site for this enzyme, thus supporting a lack of distortion of the recognition site. The disulfide bridges could be cleaved using a large excess of DTT to regenerate the corresponding sulfhydryl compounds. A study of the serum stabilities of disulfide-bridged oligonucleotides showed that the bridged duplexes were much more stable than their unmodified counterparts, whereas the rate of degradation of the stem-loop structures was more dependent upon the size of the loop than the presence or absence of the disulfide bridge. In summary, we have described a novel methodology, employing commercially available reagents, for the stabilization of oligonucleotide duplexes or stem-loop structures by disulfide bridge formation.
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