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This article appears in the following Nucleic Acid Symposium Series issue: The 6th International Symposium on Nucleic Acids Chemistry (36th Symposium on Nucleic Acids Chemistry) [View the issue table of contents]
Synthesis and properties of a novel 2',4'-BNA bearing a urea bridged structure
Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Osaka University, 1-6 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
*Corresponding author. E-mail: obika{at}phs.osaka-u.as.jp
Abstract
Three kinds of novel bridged nucleic acid (BNA) monomers bearing carbamate or urea bridged structures, were designed and synthesized. One of these monomers, a urea-type BNA monomer was successfully incorporated into oligodeoxynucleotides (ODNs), and properties of the ODNs were evaluated. The ODNs containing the urea-type BNA monomers showed RNA selective hybridizing profiles and significant enzymatic stability.