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Nucleic Acids Symposium Series 2004 48(1):273-274; doi:10.1093/nass/48.1.273
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Evaluation of comb-type copolymers with different cationic groups as artificial nucleic acid chaperones

Sung Won Choi1, Yuichi Sato2, Toshihiro Akaike1 and Atsushi Maruyama2,3

1 Department of Biomolecular Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 4259 Nagatsuta, Midori, Yokohama 226-8501, Japan, 2 PRESTO, Japan Science and Technology Agency, 3 Institute for Materials Chemistry and Engineering, Kyushu University

We have demonstrated that cationic comb-type copolymers (CCCs) accelerate DNA hybridization and increase stability of DNA duplexes and triplexes. Tht CCCs were considered to act as nucleic acid chaperones that catalyze structural transitions of nucleic acid hybrids. In this study, CCCs with primary amino or guanidino groups were prepared to evaluate the effects of different cationic moieties upon the nucleic acid chaperoning activity. CCCs having guanidino groups have higher accelerating effect on DNA strand exchange reactions (SFRs) than that having primary amino groups. It was suggested that some modes of interactions, such as hydrogen bonding, other than ionic interactions between the copolymers and DNAs may be involved upon the strand exchange activation.


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