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Photochemical generation of C4'-oxidized abasic site containing oligonucleotide and its amine modification reaction
1 Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 812-8582, Japan, 2 Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Fukuyama University, Fukuyama 729-0292, Japan
We studied photochemical generation of oligodeoxynucleotide (ODN) containing C4'-oxidized abasic site (1) from its caged precursor 3. Photoirradiation of 3 at 365 nm followed by amine treatment under neutral conditions afforded the lactam (2) efficiently. Duplexed ODN 3 was converted to 1 faster and more efficiently than single stranded 3, whereas amine treatment of 1 formed from single stranded 3 resulted in slightly faster lactam formation than with duplex.