Abstract
Oligomeric peptide ribonucleic acids (PRNA's), tethering 5'-amino-5'-deoxyribonucleosides as a recognition site for nucleic acids, has been designed and synthesized by solid phase method. PRNA 12-mer found to form stable duplex with complementary DNA.PRNA.DNA duplex composed of PRNA with mismatched DNA has 10-degree lower melting temperature than fullmatched PRNA.DNA duplex. These results demonstrate that binding of PRNA with DNA is sequence specific. It should be emphasized that the on-off switching of PRNA.DNA duplex formation has been realized by the borate added as an external factor.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 159-160 |
Number of pages | 2 |
Journal | Nucleic acids research. Supplement (2001) |
Issue number | 2 |
Publication status | Published - 2002 |