ChemInform Abstract: Synthesis and Binding Affinity of a Chiral PNA Analogue

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08 - 250Synthesis and Binding Affinity of a Chiral PNA Analogue. —The chiral peptide nucleic acid (PNA) monomers (VIII), (XIII), (XVIII),and (XX), containing all four nucleobases, are stereoselectively prepared viathe key intermediate (V). The pyrrolidine ring in proline derivative (I) is asuitable unit for mimicking the ribose moiety in DNA. The chiral PNA isdesigned to be composed of alternated N-aminoethyl-cis-4-nucleobase-L-prolineunits possessing a tertiary amino structure in each unit. The oligomers areassembled by solid phase peptide synthesis, their binding activity with theircomplementary DNA targets are investigated. — (LI, YING; JIN, TAO;LIU, KELIANG; Nucleosides, Nucleotides Nucleic Acids 20 (2001) 9, 1705-1721; Beijing Inst. Pharmacol. Toxicol., Beijing 100850, Peop. Rep. China; EN)

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