High-affinity nucleic acid recognition using ‘LNA’ (locked nucleic acid, β-D-ribo configured LNA), ‘xylo-LNA’ (β-D-xylo configured LNA) or ‘α-L-LNA’ (α-L-ribo configured LNA)
- 1 January 1999
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) in Chemical Communications
- No. 20,p. 2073-2074
- https://doi.org/10.1039/a906713b
Abstract
Remarkably strong binding affinities towards complementary single stranded DNA and RNA were obtained for 10- and 14-mer LNAs (locked nucleic acids) containing diastereoisomeric β-D-ribo, β-D-xylo or α-L-ribo configured LNA thymine monomers; a possible relevance of these results in relation to nucleic acid evolution is discussed.Keywords
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